State v. Lucero’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State v. Mora (1997), Smith V. Secretary of New Mexico Department of Corrections (1995)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 Gordon v. United States · Luck v. United States · Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · United States v. Mahone · State v. Manus
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the nature of the crime in relation to its impeachment value as well as its inflammatory impact; (2) the date of the prior conviction and witness's subsequent history; (3) similarities, and the effect thereof, between the past crime and the crime charged; (4) a correlation of standards expressed in Rule 609(a) with the policies reflected in Rule 404, N.M.R.Evid., N.M.S.A. 1978; (5) the importance of the defendant's testimony, and (6) the centrality of the credibility issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trejo · State v. Conn“clearly against the logic and effect of the facts and circumstances before the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trejo“`what sort of person is asking them to take his word.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trejo
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.