Chapman v. Luna’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably City of Sunland Park v. MacIas (2003), New Mexico Environmental Improvement Division v. Thomas (1986)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 7521 · 42 U.S.C. § 7522
Relies on Apodaca v. Wilson · Gruschus Ex Rel. Estate of Adams v. Bureau of Revenue · DesGeorges v. Grainger · Burroughs v. Board of County Commissioners · Burroughs v. BD. OF CTY. COM'RS, CTY., BERNALILLO
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A part of the law may be unconstitutional and the remainder of it valid, where the objectionable part may be properly separated from the other without impairing the force and effect of the portion which remains, and where the legislative purpose as expressed in such valid portion can be accomplished and given effect, independently of the void provisions, and where if the entire act is taken into consideration it cannot be said that the enacting power would not have passed the portion retained had it known that the void provisions must fall.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word or phrase of this [Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this [0]rdinanee. The Council hereby declares that it would have passed this [0]rdinance and each section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word or phrase thereof irrespective of any provision being declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.