State v. Bazan’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Gallegos v. Citizens Insurance Agency (1989), State v. Smith (1979)
65 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 Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · Acklen's v. Hickman · Maestas v. Overton · De Palma v. Weinman · State v. Baca
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases in which character or a trait of character of a person is an essential element of a charge, claim, or defense, proof may also be made of specific instances of his conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) CHARACTER EVIDENCE GENERALLY. Evidence of a person’s character or a trait of his character is not admissible for the purpose of proving that he acted in conformity therewith on a particular occasion, except: ****** (2) Character of victim. Evidence of a pertinent trait of character of the victim ■of the crime offered by an accused, or by the prosecution to rebut the same or evidence of a character trait of peacefulness of the victim offered by the prosecution in a homicide case to rebut evidence that the victim was the first aggressor * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“... Evidence Rule 404(a)(2) permits the defense to introduce evidence of a pertinent trait of character of ... [decedent] as victim of the crime for the purpose of showing that ... [decedent] acted in conformity with that character trait in defendant’s case.... Specific conduct is ... admissible to prove character of ... [this] type... . [ 90 N.M. 214 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montoya
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.