Apodaca v. AAA Gas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Sandoval v. Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc. (2009), Benavidez v. City of Gallup (2007)
6 district · 84 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 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. August · Nilsen v. City of Moss Point · Key v. Chrysler Motors Corp. · Schmitz v. Smentowski · Huff v. White Motor 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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A decision to grant summary judgment on preclusion principles is reviewed under a de novo standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) [Tjhere must be a statute which prescribes certain actions or defines a standard of conduct, either explicitly or implicitly[;] (2) the defendant must violate the statute[;] (3) the plaintiff must be in the class of persons sought to be protected by the statute[;] and (4) the harm or injury to the plaintiff must generally be of the type the legislature through the statute sought to prevent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where the court’s discretion is fact-based, we must look at the facts relied on by the trial court as a basis for the exercise of its discretion, to determine if these facts are supported by substantial evidence. If the facts essential to the trial court’s judgment, are not established by substantial evidence in the record, we will necessarily find an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gutierrez v. Connick
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.