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State v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
5
states following
April 2003
most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably State v. Crain (1997), State v. Jones (1995)

30 state decisions

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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 Bruno v. United States · Kennedy v. Powell · Williamson v. United States · State v. Andrada · State v. Graves

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

  1. “A verdict of the jury will not be set aside because the trial court or this court is not satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant. State v. Frazier, 17 N.M. 535 , 131 P. 502 (1913); State v. Hunter, 37 N.M. 382 , 24 P.2d 251 (1933); State v. Lucero, 63 N.M. 80 , 313 P.2d 1052 (Ct.App. 1957).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It has been firmly established that an instruction on defendant’s failure to testify is actually a benefit as a caution to the jury and is not erroneous, even though the defendant did not request it. . . . This is true, even though the defendant objects. .”
    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.