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← 141 N.M. 875 - State v. Emmons

State v. Emmons’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Parish · State v. Abeyta · Incorporated County of Los Alamos v. Johnson · State v. Romero · State v. Jernigan

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he Supreme Court [has] specifically declined to favor citizens's arrest for breaches of the peace, stemming from their concern that such an expansion of citizen power might likely lead to more breaches of the peace and encourage vigilantism.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[d]efendant is entitled to a jury instruction that supports his theory of the case, but only when that theory is supported by the evidence presented at trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “We review the refusal of a jury instruction de novo, as a mixed question of law and fact.”
    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.