Gonzales v. Atnip’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Gallegos v. State Board of Education (1997), Board of Education for the Carlsbad Municipal Schools v. New Mexico State Department of Public Education (1999)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Ammerman v. Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. · Stang v. Hertz Corporation · Stang v. Hertz Corporation · Mowrer v. Rusk · State Ex Rel. Hannah v. Armijo
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.
“The historical and current public policy of this state is to favor the settlement of disputed claims. Ratzlaff v. Seven Bar Flying Service, Inc., 98 N.M. 159 , 646 P.2d 586 (Ct.App.1982). This policy applies to the settlement of lawsuits. Jones v. United Minerals Corp., 93 N.M. 706 , 604 P.2d 1240 (1979); Bogle v. Potter, 68 N.M. 239 , 360 P.2d 650 (1961); Esquibel v. Brown Construction Co., 85 N.M. 487 , 513 P.2d 1269 (Ct.App.1973). The settlement of a lawsuit will be enforced by the courts. Jones.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party seeking relief from ... a settlement has the burden of persuasion.”
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.