Construction Contracting & Management, Inc. v. McConnell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Paiz v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (1994), Flores v. Baca (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 Melnick v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Levenson v. Mobley · Romero v. Mervyn's · Vickers v. North American Land Developments, Inc. · McGinnis v. Honeywell, Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In New Mexico, it is well settled that because the limited purpose of punitive damages is to punish and deter persons from certain conduct, there must be some evidence of a culpable mental state. Certainly the mere breach of a contract does not imply any basis for punitive damages without evidence of such a culpable mental state or other form of overreaching, malicious, or wanton conduct. [Citations omit-. ted.] 5”
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.