Mayeux v. Winder’s Empirical Analysis

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4 district · 36 state decisions

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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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A prevailing party is defined as the party who wins the lawsuit—that is, a plaintiff who recovers a judgment or a defendant who avoids an adverse judgment. We have also defined the prevailing party as [t]he party to a suit who successfully prosecutes the action or successfully defends against it, prevailing on the main issue, even though not necessarily to the extent of his original contention. Finally, we have reiterated that the prevailing party is the party that wins on the main issue of the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fallen v. GREP Southwest, LLC

2. “[The p]laintiffs do not appear to actually argue that the trial court's findings were not supported by substantial evidence. Nor do [the p]laintiffs identify any of the trial court's findings to which they take exception.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1 N.M. Ct. App. 452 - State Ex Rel. Solsbury Hill v. Liberty Mut.

3. “A contention that a ... finding of fact is not supported by substantial evidence shall be deemed waived unless the argument identifies with particularity the fact or facts that are not supported by substantial evidence[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1 N.M. Ct. App. 452 - State Ex Rel. Solsbury Hill v. Liberty Mut.