Vigil v. Sandoval’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Newberry v. Allied Stores, Inc. (1989), Newberry v. Allied Stores, Inc. (1989)
22 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 Sanchez v. Homestake Mining Co. · Clovis National Bank v. Harmon · Den-Gar Enterprises v. Romero · Martinez v. Mundy · Waters v. Blocksom
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.
“[i]f the deed is otherwise properly executed and acknowledged, contains words of conveyance ordinarily found in deeds, and delivered to the grantee, the fact that the deed recites that it is to take effect only upon death of grantor ... conveys a fee title postponing possession during the life of the grantor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[a] testamentary instrument is one that operates only upon and by reason of the death of the maker.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. GUSHWA v. Hunt
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.