Rutherford v. Chaves County’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. New Mexico Department of Transportation · Romero Excavation & Trucking, Inc. v. Bradley Construction Inc. · Blackburn v. State · Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Tucker · Godwin v. Memorial Medical Center
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Rutherford’s] allegations all make one basic contention: the County failed to achieve one objective — the timely controlling of traffic on Spence Road to keep it from entering the Walnut Creek crossing when water was high. This objective is entirely consistent with the notion of highway maintenance as developed by our appellate courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The immunity granted pursuant to Subsection A of Section 41^4^4 NMSA 1978 does not apply to liability for damages resulting from bodily injury ... or property damage caused by the negligence of public employees while acting within the scope of their duties during the construction, and in subsequent maintenance of any ... roadway”
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.