State v. Trujillo’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably State v. Tafoya (2010), State v. Chavarria (2009)
26 state decisions
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 Sells v. State · State v. Hodge · State v. Ramirez · State v. Zuck · State v. Freed
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because a trial court does not have subject-matter jurisdiction to impose a sentence that is illegal, the legality of a sentence need not be raised in the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tafoya“A claim that a sentence is illegal and unauthorized by statute is jurisdictional and may be raised for the first time on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tafoya
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.