Montoya v. Aral Security, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Draper v. Mountain States Mutual Casualty Co. (1994), Eckhardt v. Charter Hospital of Albuquerque, Inc. (1997)
2 district · 42 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 Scott v. Rizzo · Bartlett v. New Mexico Welding Supply, Inc. · Ott v. Keller · Walton v. State ex rel. Road Commission · Franco v. Federal Building Service, 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of any worker ... shall not be affected by the Workers’ Compensation Act ... but the claimant shall not be allowed to receive payment or recover damages for those injuries ... and also claim compensation from the employer. In such case, the receipt of compensation from the employer shall operate as an assignment to the employer ... to the extent of payment by the employer to or on behalf of the worker or employee for compensation or any other benefits to which the worker ... was entitled under the Workers’ Compensation Act....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If fairness of the amount is contested, the [WCJ] must hold a hearing to determine whether the amount paid to satisfy the third-party claim comports with the proportionate fault of the third party and with a reasonable compromise of the liability of that party. In such a contest, it is for the [WCJ] to decide the employer’s right to reimbursement and credit, if any, against liability for future compensation and related benefits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the fiction that a worker has been made financially whole when the worker has received less than the compensation and related benefits to which entitled under the Act. If there is a problem with a satisfaction of the third-party claim, it does not go to double recovery. Rather, it goes to the amount of reimbursement or credit to which the employer is entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.