State v. Jiminez’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2014
7 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 Darling Apartment Co. v. Springer · 23 Utah 2d 47 - Hansen v. Barlow · State Ex Rel. Neeriemer v. Daviess Circuit Court · Meyers v. Second Judicial Dist. Court, Etc. · 35 Mich. App. 541 - People v. Karalla
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of the attorney general: (1) To ... prosecute or defend all causes to which the state or any officer, board or commission thereof in an official capacity is a party; and he shall have charge as attorney of all civil legal matters in which the state is in anywise interested.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Certainly the framers of the Constitution had no intention to elevate County Attorneys to positions of pre-emi-nence where they might dictate that the Attorney General, who has supervisory authority over them, could not act in the role of prosecutor under appropriate circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]s chief law officer of the State, the Attorney General, in the absence of express legislative restriction to the contrary, may exercise all such power and authority as the public interests may from time to time require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robertson
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.