State v. Cuevas’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably State v. Johnson (1985), State v. Barr (1999)
2 district · 38 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 State v. Blevins · Barnett v. Malley · State v. Leyba · State v. McKinley · State v. Lujan
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contributing to delinquency of minor consists of any person committing any act, or omitting the performance of any duty, which act or omission causes, or tends to cause or encourage the delinquency of any person under the age of eighteen years. Whoever commits contributing to delinquency of minor is guilty of a fourth degree felony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“into phrases the Legislature used without limitation. We hold that a minor can be prosecuted under Section 30-6-3, and can be convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Our conclusion would be no different if we assumed, for the sake of argument, that the statute is ambiguous and that statutory interpretation is appropriate. We disagree with the Court of Appeals reading of the statute, the precedents, and the Legislature's intent. First, the fact that the offense in question was placed in Article 6 of the Criminal Code among”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pitts
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.