State v. Mata’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2012
22 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 People v. Failla · United States v. Thomas · 53 Wis. 2d 751 - Champlain v. State · City of Albuquerque v. Ackerman · State v. Vigil
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“? They have not been interpreted. Section 41-23-41(a) provides: The court must instruct the jury upon all questions of law necessary for guidance in returning a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lunn“Under Rule 41(a), the necessity of guidance to the jury is a mandatory duty of the trial court to avoid guess and speculation in returning a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Lunn“belie[f that] he was in danger of receiving an immediate battery.”
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.