Hickey v. Griggs’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Harmon Cable Communications of Nebraska Ltd. Partnership v. Scope Cable Television, Inc. (1991), American Insurance v. El Paso Pipe & Supply Co. (1992)
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 Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · Getz v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of US · Laughlin v. Laughlin · Greenfield v. Bruskas · Aboud v. Adams
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legal rule of mitigation is designed to discourage persons against whom wrongs have been committed from passively suffering economic loss which could be averted by reasonable efforts, or from actively increasing such loss where prudence requires that such activity cease.” Hickey v. Griggs, 106 N.M. 27 , 738 P.2d 899, 902 (1987).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walters v. Michel
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.