State v. Medina’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Swafford v. State (1991), State v. Tanton (1975)
51 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 Wenzler v. Pitchess · State v. Birckhead · Kelly v. United States · State v. Trujillo · State v. McHorse
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a lesser offense to be included within the greater offense, it must be ‘necessarily included.’ For the lesser offense to be ‘necessarily included’, the greater offense cannot be committed without also committing the lesser. In determining whether an offense is necessarily included, we look to the offense charged in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swafford v. State“possession of marijuana was a lesser offense necessarily included in the greater offense of distribution of marijuana.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Franco
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.