State v. Trujillo’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Tafoya (2010), State v. Tsosie (2011)
102 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 Atkins v. Virginia · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Jackson v. Indiana · Buck v. Bell · State v. Smith
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We will not read into a statute any words that are not there, particularly when the statute is complete and makes sense as written.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[W]hen a statute contains clear and unambiguous language, we will heed that language and refrain from further statutory interpretation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Vest · State v. Gonzales“if the language is doubtful, ambiguous, or an adherence to the literal use of the words would lead to injustice, absurdity or contradiction, we will reject the plain meaning in favor of an interpretation driven by the statute's obvious spirit or reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Diamond v. Diamond
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.