State v. Vallejos’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2009
17 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 Graves v. United States · State v. Day · United States v. Merryman · State v. Nelson · State v. Trujillo
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“New Mexico law permits comment, in closing argument, concerning the failure to call a witness. U.J.I.Crim. 40.10 and Committee commentary * * * U.J.I.Civil 21.4 and Committee Comment * * * State v. Martin, 32 N.M. 48 , 250 P. 842 (1926). * * * * * * Such an inference may or may not be valid. Because such an inference may be urged by both sides, and is a “mere matter of argument” by the attorneys, New Mexico trusts “to the good sense of the jury to properly estimate the value of such arguments.” State v. Martin, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ennis
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.