Mascarenas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably State v. Mitchell (1986), State v. Gladden (1972)
54 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Bruton v. United States · Pointer v. Texas · Douglas v. Alabama · Jencks 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When violation of a constitutional right in the proceedings before the magistrate is brought to the attention of the [district] court and found to exist, the accused’s right and the court’s duty is to abate the information until there has been a proper preliminary examination, and remand the accused to the magistrate for such examination unless it be competently waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rodriguez“The denial of the right of an accused to fully cross-examine a hostile witness deprives him of the right guaranteed by the constitution “to be confronted with the witnesses against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor“to be confronted with the witnesses against him”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Valles v. State
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.