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← 116 N.M. 398 - Padilla v. Montano

Padilla v. Montano’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
5
states following
March 2022
most recently cited

2 district · 40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Tedford v. Gregory (1998), Major v. Major (1997)

2 district · 40 state decisions

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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 Hudson v. Palmer · Spingola v. Spingola · Roybal v. Morris · Naranjo v. Paull · Stringer v. Dudoich

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “facilitate [the statute's] operation and the achievement of [its] goals.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “We will not construe a statute to defeat the intended purpose or achieve an absurd result.”). Such a result could be contrary to the PERA Board's primary function — its fiduciary responsibility to its members and beneficiaries. See N.M. Const. Art. XX, § 22(B). Moreover, the statute’s identification of the PERA Board’s”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[i] t is not logical to apply a more lenient statute of limitations to a paternity action but then apply a stricter limitations period to the child's cause of action to seek support.”
    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.