Mascarenas v. Jaramillo’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB (1994), Roth v. Thompson (1992)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 129 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 Cave v. Cave · Shaeffer v. Kelton · Mantz v. Follingstad · Toltec International, Inc. v. Village of Ruidoso · Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Anaya
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he object sought to be accomplished by the Act is a healthy, ordered market in which consumers may contract with competent, reliable construction contractors who have passed the scrutiny of a licensing division. The wrong to be remedied is the exploitation of the public by incompetent and unscrupulous contractors who are unable or unwilling to obtain a license.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose fo the [CILA] is to promote the general welfare of the people of New Mexico by providing for the protection of life and property[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`As a matter of public policy, an unlicensed contractor may not retain payments made pursuant to a contract which requires him to perform in violation of the [general-contractor licensing] Act. This is true even if, as here, the consumer has knowledge that the contractor is unlicensed. The public policy behind the licensing requirement of the Act is so strong that the element of consumer knowledge is of no consequence in our decision.'"”
2 later decisions 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.