Maldonado v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2018
24 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 United States v. Basurto · 15 Cal. 3d 248 - Johnson v. Superior Court · United States v. J. Joseph Kennedy, United States of America v. Robert J. Myers, United States of America v. Lawrence F. Carlson · United States v. Estepa · State v. McGill
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the recent case of State v. Herrera . . . the Court of Appeals reaffirmed that due process requires the presentation of evidence to the grand jury which tends to negate guilt. Further, the newly-enacted grand jury reforms specifically require that the prosecutor present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury. § 31-6-11(B). Maldonado argues that the facts in his case present a comparable due. process violation. He would have us extend .. . State v. Herrera and rule for the first time that the receipt of inadmissible evidence by a grand jury is grounds for invalidating an indictment. We decline to do so. (Our emphasis, except for citation.) ****** We hold that the indictment in this case is'not void because of the introduction of inadmissible evidence ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Payne“the courts are without power to review the sufficiency, legality or competency of the evidence upon which an indictment is returned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez“chose not to give the New Mexico courts the authority to review evidence supporting a grand jury indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez
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.