State v. Lucero’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably State v. Garcia (1992), State v. Lankford (1978)
1 federal appellate · 54 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · McLaughlin v. Florida · Fuentes v. Shevin · Atlantic City Electric Co. v. United States · State v. Garcia
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a deliberate intention means an intention or decision arrived at after careful thought and after a weighing of the reasons for the commission of the killing, such a decision may be reached in a short period of time. Here there is evidence clearly supporting a deliberate intention on the part of Lucero to kill decedent as well as decedent’s wife * * *. Under these circumstances, the issue of deliberation, as well as all other issues of fact, was for the jury to decide. [Citation omitted.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Robinson“"[i]n determining whether [substantial] evidence supports a criminal charge, or an essential element thereof, [must] view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, resolving all conflicts therein and indulging all permissible inferences therefrom in favor of the [jury's] verdict of conviction...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ramirez
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.