State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1990
23 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 State v. Clevenger · State v. Clements · State v. Archer · State v. Hernandez · Riggins v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the ouset of the statement made by appellant in the New Mexico penitentiary, he said: ‘In my previous statement made to L. A. Kindal, Special Agent, I stated that a man by the name of Strange, and one Tony Valdez, and a man by the name of Bussett, was connected with this murder; at this time I desire to correct that statement eliminating those individuals from any connection with this matter, and tell the truth, regardless of circumstances, as to how the crime was committed.’ “This earlier statement had been made while appellant was in custody in Louisiana. The state made no use of it in chief, but it did cross-examine to some extent as to its contents. It was objected that such inquiries were not permissible until a foundation had been laid for reception of the statement as a confession. The court ruled: ‘I have a set idea on this. It is like any other impeachment evidence so long as the instrument itself is not in.’ “We consider the ruling correct. The cross-examination appears to have proceeded according to Comp. St. 1929, §§ 45-604, 45-605 (§§ 20-2-1 and 20-2-2, N.M.S.A., 1953 Comp.). The right to inquire of the witness is not dependent upon a further right to show the falsity of his answer. Riggins v. State, 125 Md. 165 , 93 A.437, Ann.Cas.1916E, 1117. “In State v. Fernandez, 37 N.M. 151 , 19 P.(2d) 1048, 1050, we relied on the distinction between actual impeachment after foundation laid and ‘the effort to obtain admissions from the witness himself.’ “In State v. Arc”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turnbow
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.