State v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), State v. Duffy (1998)
2 federal appellate · 76 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Engle v. Isaac · William Marbury v. James Madison
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant convicted of first degree murder under a specific aggravat[ing] circumstance should not be put to death if another defendant or other defendants[ ] convicted of murder under the same aggravat[ing] circumstance is given life imprisonment, unless there is some justification.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark · State v. Fry“[p]roportionality review in New Mexico is first and foremost directed to the particular circumstances of a crime and the specific character of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fry · Fry v. Lopez“be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity or absence of mistake or accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gaitan · State v. Duffy
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.