State Ex Rel. State Engineer v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2023
24 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 Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · Morningstar Water Users Ass'n v. New Mexico Public Utility Commission · State Ex Rel. Clark v. Johnson · Stinbrink v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Arizona · V.P. Clarence Co. v. Colgate
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Court will read the requirements of one portion of a statute into the requirements of another portion only where there is no plausible reason for the difference under the two statutory provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An early interpretation and uniform administration of a statute by executive officers will not be lightly overturned.”
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.