State v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Apodaca (1994), State v. Lopez (1999)
30 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 Perea v. Baca · State v. Harrison · State v. Thoreen · State v. Deaton · State v. McCallum
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence has been presented that the Defendant killed Benjie Romero while defending herself. If Defendant killed Benjie Romero in self-defense you must find her not guilty. The killing is in self-defense if: 1. There was an appearance of immediate danger of death or great bodily harm to the Defendant as a result of her having confronted Benjie Romero with a gun; and 2. The Defendant was in fact put in fear by the apparent danger of immediate death or great bodily harm and killed Benjie Romero because of that fear; and 3. The apparent danger would have cause [sic] a reasonable person in the same circumstances to act as the Defendant did. The burden is on the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant did not act in self-defense. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Branchal“[i]t is the agreement constituting the conspiracy which the statute punishes. * * A conspiracy is a common design or agreement to accomplish an unlawful purpose or a lawful purpose by unlawful means. * * * [I]t is the object of the conspiracy which is examined when a court evaluates the number of possible conspiracies. Several illegal acts may be involved in reaching one goal. The test is whether the agreement in question has a single, unified purpose or a common end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hernandez
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.