State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 state decisions

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

1. “Rule 10-101 (A)(2)(b) provides that, unless the Children’s Court Rules specifically provide, the Rules of Criminal Procedure for the District Courts apply to alleged youthful offenders after the State gives notice of its intent to invoke adult sanctions. We adopted the Rule shortly after the 1993 enactment of the Children’s Code. Our unpublished commentary indicates that because an alleged youthful offenderpotentially faces an adult sanction, we chose to apply the Rules of Criminal Procedure in an effort to provide more protections than the Children’s Court Rules do. Specifically, we intended to extend the right to bail, the statutory right to three telephone calls within 20 minutes after detention, and in a warrantless arrest and detention case, the right to be given a copy of the criminal complaint prior to transfer to custody of a detention facility, and the right to a prompt probable cause determination. With the exception of the right to bail, we are no longer convinced that the above-mentioned rights justify forfeiting the additional protections afforded juveniles in the Children’s Court Rules. Compare, e.g., Rule 10-243 NMRA (providing that the adjudicatory hearing shall commence within 30 days for a child held in detention and within 120 days for a child not in detention) with Rule 5-604 NMRA (providing that a trial shall commence within six months). The issue is beyond the scope of this Opinion, but we encourage the Children’s Court Rules Committee to revisit the que”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Leticia T. · State v. LETICIA

2. “unlike the adult criminal justice system, with its focus on punishment and deterrence, the juvenile justice system reflects a policy favoring the rehabilitation and treatment of children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Nehemiah Child G.

3. “none of those factors, standing alone, is dispositive. The [district] court must consider each of them ... in determining whether the child is amenable to treatment or rehabilitation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Nehemiah Child G.