State v. Mendonca’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Castro (1988), State v. Ganal (1996)
41 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 Blockburger v. United States · United States v. New York Telephone Co. · United States v. Samango · People v. Howes · State v. Lima
Most-quoted passages
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“Mendonca and [his companion] Yasay decided to rob a gambling “banker” (a person who holds gambling money proceeds). In the early morning hours of January 21,1983, they drove after the car of Gary Ramos (hereinafter “Ramos”) intending to rob him. While Yasay drove, Mendonca fired several shots and wounded Ramos. After chasing Ramos for a few miles and nearly crashing into Ramos’ car, Yasay said, “Let’s just let it go.” Mendonca replied, “No; let’s go man. We have to get him now.” Transcript, August 8-9, 1984 at 139 (emphasis added). After Ramos’ car crashed, Mendonca jumped out of Yasay’s car and began shooting.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Castro · State v. Ah Choy“[w]e are mindful that dismissal of an indictment is required only in flagrant cases in which the grand jury has been overreached or deceived in some significant way.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Silver · State v. Arroyo“A trial court's ruling on a motion to dismiss an indictment is reviewed for an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Silver · State v. Arroyo
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