Chavez v. Mountain States Constructors’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Dewitt v. Rent-A-Center, Inc. (2009), Jicarilla Apache Nation v. Rodarte (2004)
63 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 · Cummings v. X-Ray Associates of New Mexico, P. C. · State v. Jonathan M. · Padilla Ex Rel. Padilla v. Dairyland 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We will avoid any literal interpretation that leads to an absurd or unreasonable result and threatens to convict the legislature of imbecility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not require a wooden literal interpretation of all statutory language”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.