State v. Contreras’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2025
16 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 Swafford v. State · State v. Woodward · State v. Bernal · State v. Baca · State v. Franco
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Defendant had possession of the cocaine when he got it from his supplier, (2) Defendant then brought the cocaine into the bathroom and put it on the counter so that he could separate a portion to sell to [the agent], and (3) once he completed the sale with [the agent], Defendant kept a portion of the cocaine. The State thus provided the jury with sufficient factual bases for finding that Defendant possessed the cocaine both before and after he sold some of it to [the agent].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gwynne · State v. Quick“If the conduct [was] not unitary, then the inquiry is at an end and there is no double jeopardy violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gwynne · State v. Urioste“Franco , 2005-NMSC-013 , ¶ 7, 112 P.3d 1104 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gwynne · State v. Gonzales
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.