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← 78 N.M. 446 - State v. Chavez

State v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis

1967

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
1
states following
December 2012
most recently cited

48 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably State v. Lopez (1969), State v. Case (1984)

48 state decisions

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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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · Estes v. Texas · Rideau v. Louisiana · Marshall v. United States · Medler v. Henry

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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “As a general proposition, unimpeached and uncontradicted sworn testimony must be accepted as true.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “As a general proposition, unimpeached and uncontradicted sworn testimony must be accepted as true. If, in this case, the evidence is unimpeached and uncontradicted, the general rule is applicable and findings which disregard such evidence are lacking in support.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. ““Defendant has the burden of establishing his claims. * * * If the evidence before the court is accepted as true and that evidence fails to establish the claim made, the failure of proof requires that relief be denied.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.