Commissioners of Santa Fé County v. Territory of New Mexico ex rel. Coler’s Empirical Analysis
215 U.S. 296 · 1909
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1966 · most notably De Castro v. Board of Commissioners (1944), Phoenix Railway Co. v. Landis (1913)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 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 The Max Morris · Fourth Nat Bank of City of New York v. Francklyn · Ex parte Rowland · Greeley v. Lowe · Northern Pac Co v. Territory of Washington Dustin
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principal of these objections is that peremptory writs should not have been issued without a hearing, and that there should have been a demand made of the commissioners before suit. As to the first, it may be said that it probably appeared to the district court that the board could have no possible excuse, and in such case a peremptory writ is authorized in the first instance by the laws of the territory.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.