Montoya v. O'TOOLE’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2018
21 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 Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · State v. Roy · City of Santa Fe v. Gamble-Skogmo, Inc. · State Ex Rel. State Park & Recreation Commission v. New Mexico State Authority · City of Albuquerque v. Jones
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.
““[t]he legislature, by its nature, has neither the facilities nor the expertise to assume [an effective drug-control program]. Furthermore, because the legisla ture is not in continuous session, it cannot give the drug control program constant attention, the lack of which could result in a dangerous drug being widely disseminated throughout the state before effective controls were instituted.” Id. at 919 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peloquin“[t]he [B]oard shall place a substance in Schedule I if it finds that the substance: (1) has a high potential for abuse; and (2) has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or lacks accepted safety for use in treatment under medical supervision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arias“established strict statutory standards and directed the Board to apply them in categorizing substances”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arias
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.