State v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably State v. Gilman (1972), State v. Wright (1972)
64 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 62 Cal. 2d 769 - People v. Perez · 67 Cal. 2d 471 - Rideout v. Superior Court · State v. Williams · State v. Rowell · 28 Ill. 2d 65 - The People v. Anthony
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The preliminary hearing is to determine whether a crime has been committed, the connection the accused has with it thereby informing him of the nature and character of the crime charged, to perpetuate testimony, and to establish bail, if the offense is bailable. State v. Melendrez, 49 N.M. 181 , 159 P.2d 768 (1945).”
2 later decisions 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.