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← 85 N.M. 753 - State v. McHorse

State v. McHorse’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

68
cited by 68 later decisions
3
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

4 district · 56 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Daniels v. State (1988), State v. Haddenham (1990)

4 district · 56 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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1716 · 21 U.S.C. § 845 · 21 U.S.C. § 903 (§ 708 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 39 U.S.C. § 3001 (Deceptive Mail Prevention and Enforcement Act)

Relies on Roth v. United States · Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · Railway Mail Ass'n v. Corsi · Malinda Fox v. The State of Ohio · Poe v. Ullman

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

  1. “(3) Distribute. “Distribute” means to deliver to the possession of another. “Deliver” means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer of an item, whether or not there exists an agency relationship.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The delivery (of a check) to the post office (for final delivery to the addressee) is a constructive and technical delivery.”
    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.