Martinez v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
196 F.2d 192 · 1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2008
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Maxwell Land-Grant Case · Tameling v. United States Freehold and Emigration Company · Astiazaran v. Santa Rita Land & Mining Co. · Maxwell Land-Grant Case · H. N. D. Land Co. v. Suazo
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico, as recommended for confirmation by said surveyor-general in his reports and abstract marked exhibit A, as communicated to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior in his letter dated the third of February eighteen hundred and sixty, and numbered from twenty to thirty-eight, both inclusive, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The duty of providing the mode for securing and establishing claims to Spanish and Mexican land titles and fulfilling the [T]reaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo developed upon the political department of the government. Congress could either discharge that duty itself or delegate it to the judicial department,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Supreme Court held that the action of Congress, when taken [pursuant to the New Mexico Surveyor General Act], was conclusive as to the validity and the character or nature of the grant, and was not subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States or any other judicial tribunal.”
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.