State v. Nance’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos (1994), State Ex Rel. Newsome v. Alarid (1977)
4 federal appellate · 179 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 United States v. Tateo · Sealfon v. United States · Waley v. Johnston · State v. Ochoa · George v. United States
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We are committed to an acceptance of the intent of the language employed by the legislature rather than the precise definition of the words themselves. [Citations omitted.] And, in construing a statute, the legislative intent must be given effect by adopting a construction which will not render the statute's application absurd or unreasonable. [Citation omitted.] Not only must the legislative intent be given effect, but the court will not be bound by a literal interpretation of the words if such strict interpretation would defeat the intended object of the legislature. [Citation omitted.]" State v. Nance, 77 N.M. 39 , 419 P.2d 242 (1966).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[W]here the language of the legislative act is doubtful or an adherence to the literal use of words would lead to injustice, absurdity or contradiction, the statute will be construed according to its obvious spirit or reason, even though this requires the rejection of words or the substitution of others.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The former jeopardy clause of the constitution does not preclude a retrial of a defendant whose sentence is set aside because of an error in the proceedings leading to the sentence or conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peters · State v. Sneed
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.