Birdo v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Ahasteen (1998), Newsome v. Farer (1985)
2 district · 41 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 Martin v. Leonard Motor-El Paso · State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. Molybdenum Corp. of America · Benally v. Pigman · State v. Ramirez · Baker v. Sojka
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the essential elements prerequisite to the granting of the relief sought can be found or reasonably inferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martinez v. State“We have in mind that the petition was not prepared by an attorney and regard it with a tolerant eye.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. Shanks“Trial courts have supervisory control over their dockets.”
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.