State v. Diamond’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Winters v. People of State of New York (1948), State v. Laguna (1999)
77 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Schenck v. United States · United States v. Reese · State v. Garcia · Gilbert v. State of Minnesota · Ex parte Jackson
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [T]he question of the constitutionality of the act involved determines whether a crime has been committed. If the law is void, no crime has been committed and none can be committed under it ... . State v. Diamond, 27 N.M. 477, 488 , 202 P. 988, 993 , 20 A.L.R. 1527 , 1535 (1921).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Elliott · State v. Pugh“Where the statute uses words of no determinative meaning, or the language is so general and indefinite as to embrace not only acts commonly recognized as reprehensible, but also others which it is unreasonable to presume were intended to be made criminal, it will be declared void for uncertainty. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mascarenas
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.