State v. Blea’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably State v. Apao (1978), State v. Fuentes (1994)
29 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 Pompano Horse Club, Inc. v. State Ex Rel. Bryan · Jordan v. United States District Court · Johnson v. State · 22 Cal. App. 3d 786 - People v. Spencer · State v. Ferris
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An indictment or information is valid and • sufficient if it charges in one or more of the following ways: (1) By using the name given to the offense by the common law or by a statute; (2) by stating so much of the definition of the offense * * * as is sufficient to give the court ahd the defendant notice of what offense is intended to be charged; or (3) by referring to a section or subsection of any statute creating the offense charged therein. In this case, the indictment charges: That on or about the 28th day of June, 1984, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, the defendant, David Morton, did commit the crime of Murder when he did, without lawful justification, kill Teri Lynn Mulvaney, contrary to Section 30-2-1 A and B[,] NMSA 1978, a capital felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morton“... murder other than murder in the first degree, rape, statutory rape, rape of a child, sexual assault, escape from jail, escape from penitentiary, escape from custody of a peace officer or assault by prisoner... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sanchez“that § 40A-29-3.1(A), supra, creates a new class of crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sanchez
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.