State v. Ruiz

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that as a general rule, we will uphold the decision of a district court if it is right for any reason
• explaining that 13 a judge’s opinions about a litigant or witness that arise during the course of litigation 14 do not constitute the type of extrajudicial bias that requires recusal
• “[l]ike many other states, New Mexico rejects Michaels in favor of our well-established competency jurisprudence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Ortiz
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2009-08-13· cited 54×
• State v. Jimenez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2017-02-14· cited 39×
• State v. Candelaria
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2018-12-13· cited 35×
• State v. Trujillo
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2009-09-17· cited 25×
• Madrid v. Brinker Rest. Corp.
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2015-12-10· cited 22×
• State v. Michael H.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-05-26· cited 17×
• State v. Smith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-05-06· cited 16×
• State v. Maxwell
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2016-07-05· cited 9×
• State v. Loza
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2016-07-18· cited 9×
• State v. Marquez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2023-10-12· cited 8×
• State v. Light
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2013-05-23· cited 7×
• State v. Allen
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2014-09-08· cited 7×
• State v. Perez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2016-01-20· cited 6×
• Martinez v. New Mexico Department of Transportation
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2011-06-01· cited 5×
• State v. Karelas
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-01-22· cited 5×
• State v. Rivera
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2007-06-21· cited 5×
• State v. Rivera
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2007-08-08· cited 4×
• Reece v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-12-02· cited 2×
• Martinez v. NEW MEXICO DEPT. OF TRANSP.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2011-08-05· cited 1×
• Madrid v. Brinker Restaurant Corp.
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2015-12-10· cited 1×

Cites

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

• State v. Torres
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1999-02-15· cited 266×
• State v. Michaels
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-06-23· cited 230×
• State v. Salazar
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1997-09-03· cited 228×
• State v. Hernandez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1993-01-14· cited 192×
• United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co.
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1980-08-29· cited 166×
• State v. Woodward
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1995-11-08· cited 160×
• United States v. Clarence Christian Nelson
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-10-12· cited 142×
• State v. Chamberlain
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-09-25· cited 135×
• United States v. Jerry Lee Howard
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-07-06· cited 132×
• State v. Lucero
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1986-08-21· cited 125×
• State v. Montoya
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2005-04-21· cited 113×
• State v. Fry
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2005-12-08· cited 103×
• State v. Simonson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1983-09-23· cited 91×
• State v. Lopez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1999-12-28· cited 86×
• State v. Balderama
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2004-03-01· cited 85×
• Frederick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2001-11-21· cited 80×
• English v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1999-05-27· cited 68×
• State v. Franks
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1994-07-18· cited 62×
• State v. Beachum
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1972-02-04· cited 60×
• State v. Brown
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-09-16· cited 60×