Trujillo v. Serrano’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Hyden v. New Mexico Human Services Department (1999), Marrujo v. New Mexico State Highway Transportation Department (1994)
92 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 State v. Orosco · Govich v. North American Systems, Inc. · Farmington National Bank v. Basin Plastics, Inc. · STATE, BY & THROUGH DEPT. OF HYS. v. Helehan · State Ex Rel. Udall v. Colonial Penn Insurance
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is incumbent upon the parties to strictly adhere to our clearly articulated rules of procedure. Procedural rules do nothing if they do not establish uniformity upon which all participants in the legal system can rely. Only the most unusual circumstances beyond the control of the parties-such as error on the part of the court-will warrant overlooking procedural defects.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[m]odern rules promote expedience and uniformity and attempt to balance constitutional rights with the need for the efficient administration of justice. As we have previously stated, “[i]t is the policy of this court to construe its rules liberally to the end that causes on appeal may be determined on the merits, where it can be done without impeding or confusing administration or perpetrating injustice.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]rocedural formalities should not outweigh basic rights where the facts present a marginal case which does not lend itself to a bright-line interpretation. Where ... there are two possible interpretations relating to the right to an appeal, that interpretation which permits a review on the merits rather than rigidly restricting appellate review should be favored.”
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.