State v. Montoya’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
October 1997
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Benito Lovato v. State of New Mexico · State v. Bell · State v. Smith · State v. Day · State v. McFerran
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(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: * * ⅜; * * ⅝ “(2) Character of victim. Evidence of a pertinent trait of character of the victim of the crime offered by an accused [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Jones
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.