State v. Madrid’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably State v. Freitas (1979), State v. Corneau (1989)
46 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 State v. Hargrove · State v. Pace · State v. Torres · State v. McFerran · State v. Clark
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although we have answered defendant’s ‘reasonable hypothesis’ contentions, we point out that the circumstantial evidence rule is not a concept independent of the question of whether there is substantial evidence to support the verdict. As stated in State v. Clements, 31 N.M. 620 , 249 P. 1003 (1926) : ‘The rule in a circumstantial evidence case is but a special application of the general rule of reasonable doubt. The jury having been properly instructed as to the defendant’s rights, its decision is final if supported by substantial evidence. * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peden
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.