Padilla v. Montano’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
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
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.
“facilitate [the statute's] operation and the achievement of [its] goals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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“[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 passagee.g. HARGROVE v. WARD
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.