Chapman v. Luna’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2005
16 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 60 Cal. 2d 716 - Department of Mental Hygiene v. Kirchner · Department of Mental Hygiene v. Kirchner · Stringer v. Dilger · Perea v. Baca · Department of Mental Hygiene of Cal. v. Kirchner
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the equal protection clauses of the United States Constitution and the New Mexico Constitution have been interpreted similarly, ... they nevertheless constitute independent rights and protections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Campos“provide generally equivalent but independent protections in their respective jurisdictions”
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.