State v. Baca

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• criminal conviction valid even if supported by circumstantial inference alone, so long as the inference is logical and not based on surmise

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Wilson
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2014-09-11· cited 311×
• State v. Roybal
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1992-10-14· cited 106×
• State v. Pacheco
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2008-08-14· cited 47×
• State v. Bankert
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-05-02· cited 47×
• State v. Rackley
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2000-02-11· cited 35×
• State v. Cavanaugh
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1993-12-06· cited 29×
• State v. Bonham
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1998-10-03· cited 26×
• State v. Henderson
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1993-04-12· cited 6×
• State v. Holtsoi
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2024-02-14
• State v. Fulton
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2025-10-09

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Hale
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-23· cited 969×
• Matter of Adoption of Doe
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1984-02-29· cited 839×
• State v. Sutphin
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1988-05-02· cited 538×
• State v. Franklin
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1967-06-30· cited 454×
• California v. Byers
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-17· cited 422×
• State v. Boyer
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1985-03-26· cited 401×
• State v. Moore
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1989-08-29· cited 331×
• State v. Rael
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1983-07-05· cited 223×
• State v. Nance
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1966-10-10· cited 119×
• State v. Fish
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1985-04-09· cited 118×
• State v. Brown
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1984-01-13· cited 74×
• State v. Casteneda
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1982-02-25· cited 64×
• State v. Pace
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 62×
• State v. Garcia
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1983-06-02· cited 54×
• United States v. Lamb
  Tenth Circuit· 1978-05-17· cited 46×
• State v. Lara
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1975-07-30· cited 43×
• State v. Beachum
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1981-08-11· cited 36×
• State v. Price
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1974-12-07· cited 36×
• Carraro v. Wells Fargo Mortgage & Equity
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1987-09-22· cited 36×
• State v. Fransua
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1973-05-04· cited 33×