Cottrell v. Santillanes’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2015
2 district · 4 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 U. S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton · State Ex Rel. Haynes v. Bonem · Gibbany v. Ford · Casuse v. City of Gallup · 93 Cal. App. 3d 864 - Younger v. Board of Supervisors
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may provide for any system or form of government that may be deemed expedient and beneficial to the people of the municipality, including the manner of appointment or election of its officers, the recall of the officers and the petition and referendum of any ordinance, resolution or action of the municipality; provided, that the charter shall not be inconsistent with the [Constitution of New Mexico....”
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.