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State v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
August 2022
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Gallegos (2011), State v. Moreland (2008)

34 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on State v. Carlton · State v. Forbes · State v. Volpato · State v. Desnoyers · State v. Pettigrew

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) it will probably change the result if a new trial is granted; (2) it must have been discovered since the trial; (3) it could not have been discovered before the trial by the exercise of due diligence; (4) it must be material; (5) it must not be merely cumulative; and (6) it must not be merely impeaching or contradictory.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[W]e will not disturb a [district] court's exercise of discretion in denying or granting a motion for a new trial unless there is a manifest abuse of discretion.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “Because the function of passing upon motions for new trial on newly discovered evidence belongs naturally and peculiarly, although not exclusively, to the [district] court, the discretion of a [district] court is not to be lightly interfered with.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.