People v. Nunez’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner/Cross-Respondent v. Wayne Robert STEWART, Respondent/Cross-Petitioner. (2002), People v. Garcia (2001)
42 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 Kuntz v. City of Dayton · Energy Cooperative, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Clampitt v. Interinsurance Exchange · Erlenbaugh v. United States · McClain v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court has an affirmative obligation to cooperate with counsel to either correct the tendered theory of the case instruction or to incorporate the substance of such in an instruction drafted by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an instruction embodying a defendant's theory of the case must be given by the trial court if the record contains any evidence to support the theory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cooperate with counsel to either correct the tendered ... instruction or to incorporate the substance of such an instruction drafted by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.