Woods v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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

1. “State v. Goodson, 54 N.M. 184 , 217 P.2d 262 (1950) approved the rule that an acquittal or conviction for a minor offense included in a greater will not bar a prosecution for the greater if the court in which the acquittal or conviction was had was without jurisdiction to try the accused for the greater offense. This rule was applied in State v. Mares, 79 N.M. 327 , 442 P.2d 817 (Ct.App.1968). Under this rule, petitioner would not have been in double jeopardy by the second conviction of aggravated assault because the Clovis municipal court had no jurisdiction to try that offense. However, the Supreme Court of the United States, by Chief Justice Burger, held this rule to be erroneous in Waller v. Florida, 397 U.S. 387 , 90 S.Ct. 1184 , 25 L.Ed.2d 435 (1970), reh. denied, 398 U.S. 914 , 90 S.Ct. 1684 , 26 L.Ed.2d 79 (1970). Thus, under Waller, supra, the prior conviction in municipal court may be a bar to subsequent prosecution in district court under the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. James

2. “The judicial power of the state shall be vested in ... a Supreme Court, a court of appeals, district courts-, probate courts, magistrate courts and such other courts inferior to the district courts .... [Emphasis added].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Maestas