State v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
169 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Copas v. Commissioner of Correction (1995), Bunkley v. Commissioner of Correction (1992)
169 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Sandstrom v. Montana · State v. Golding · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of murder when, with intent to cause the death of another person, he causes the death of such person or of a third person or causes a suicide by force, duress or deception ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a lesser included offense instruction is purely a matter of common law, and therefore does not implicate constitutional rights”
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.