Gallegos v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Bober v. New Mexico State Fair (1991), Williams v. Central Consolidated School District (1997)
2 district · 36 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Daniels v. Williams · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Rizzo v. Goode
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A particular agency may be held liable for the negligent act or omission of a public employee only if immunity has been waived. Id. Thus, the dispositive issues are whether (1) Section 41-4-9 waives immunity for the actions by HED on which plaintiff bases her complaint, or (2) the employees of Border Area are public employees within the meaning of Section 41-4-10. Insofar as Section 41-4-9 is concerned, plaintiff's argument is that the public employees are the employees of HED who, by virtue of their extensive regulatory scheme, are”
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.