Rutherford v. Chaves County’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Hovet v. Allstate Insurance (2004), City of Albuquerque v. BPLW Architects & Engineers, Inc. (2009)
58 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 Calkins v. Cox Estates · Bober v. New Mexico State Fair · California First Bank v. State · Miller v. New Mexico Department of Transportation · Board of Com'rs of Rio Arriba County v. Greacen
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. 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, wrongful death 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 bridge, culvert, highway, roadway, street, alley, sidewalk or parking area. B. The liability for which immunity has been waived pursuant to Subsection A of this section shall not include liability for damages caused by: (1) a defect in plan or design of any bridge, culvert, highway, roadway, street, alley, sidewalk or parking area; (2) the failure to construct or reconstruct any bridge, culvert, highway, roadway, street, alley, sidewalk or parking area ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n a case where a pure question of law is at issue, we will not review a grant of summary judgment in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“identification and remediation of roadway hazards constitutes highway maintenance”
2 later decisions 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.