State v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Gallegos v. Citizens Insurance Agency (1989), Crozier v. State (1986)
29 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. Mabry · State v. Trivitt · State v. Moss · State v. Garcia · Ex parte DeVore
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]omplaints of the inadequacy of legislation to reach the result desired by the State must therefore be addressed to the legislature, not to the courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Russell · State v. Tabaha“The 1941 statute proscribing escape from jail, § 41-4102, supra, remained the law of New Mexico [Nee Laws 1959, ch. Ill] until repealed by the 1963 Criminal Code. The escape from jail statute [re-]enacted in 1941 was enacted, in simplified form, by the drafters [sic] of the Criminal Code as § 22-8 of Laws 1963, ch. 303, and was compiled as § 40A-22-8, N.M.S.A. 1953. It now is compiled as § 30-22-8, N.M.S.A. 1978, and is, of course, the statute under which the defendants have been charged in the present information. Construing § 30-22-8, supra, in the light of the statute in which it had its origin, i.e., § 41-4102, N.M.S.A. 1941, it is clear that the section contemplates a commitment to jail under a criminal charge. [Compare State v. Garcia, 78 N.M. 777 , 438 P.2d 521 (Ct.App.1968).] There can be no other reasonable conclusion as to the proper construction of § 30-22-8, in the light of its legislative history.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alderette
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.