Apodaca v. Baca’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1981 · most notably State v. McAfee (1967), State v. Manlove (1968)
25 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Joseph E. Thomas v. Ruth A. Martin Hogan · Benton Ex Rel. Benton v. Pellum · Rodgers v. Commonwealth · Reid v. Brown · 6 Utah 2d 399 - Utah Farm Bureau Ins. Co. v. Chugg
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When, how, by whom and in what manner or condition the specimen was received by Van Atta Laboratory is not shown by the evidence. How long, where and how the specimen was kept, as well as who had possession of the specimen from May 23, to May 27, 1960, is also not shown. Neither does the evidence show by whom, how and in what manner or condition the specimen was delivered to Beighley’s Laboratory. [ 73 N.M. at 107 , 385 P.2d at 965 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. South v. Lucero
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.