Martinez v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably New Mexico Right to Choose/NARAL v. Johnson (1999), Tedford v. Gregory (1998)
30 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 Dunleavy v. Miller · Marchman v. NCNB Texas National Bank · State Ex Rel. New Mexico State Highway & Transportation Department v. Baca · Gonzales v. Surgidev Corp. · Rivera v. Brazos Lodge Corp.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The presumption that a prevailing party is entitled to an award of costs may be overcome ... by a showing of misconduct, bad faith, or abusive tactics. Gallegos [v. Southwest Community Health Servs., 117 N.M. 481, 490 , 872 P.2d 899, 908 (Ct.App.1994).] Additionally, the trial court, upon a showing of equitable grounds, may restrict, apportion, or disallow costs in civil actions. Id. If, however, the trial court in the exercise of its discretion does not award costs to the prevailing party, it should specify the reasons for its denial unless the basis for denying costs is clear from the record. Marchman, 120 N.M. at 94-95 , 898 P.2d at 729-30 ; see also Alverson [v. Harris, 1997 NMCA 024, ¶25, 123 N.M. 153 , 935 P.2d 1165 ] (if the record discloses reasons both supporting and detracting from trial court’s decision, there is no abuse of discretion).”
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.