Montoya v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2007
16 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 People Ex Rel. Smith v. Pease · Tunks v. Vincent · People Ex Rel. Attorney General Ex Rel. Boyer v. Teague · Lane v. Bailey · Moore v. Sharp
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to the rejection of the recount made by the board of county commissioners, it is sufficient to say that upon the state of the evidence the court properly rejected the recount. The rule is well settled that, where it is shown that the ballot boxes have been In the custody of parties not entitled thereto, the burden rests upon the contestant to show that during such time the ballot boxes were not tampered with. In this case the contestee showed that the ballot boxes for a time had been in the posession of the secretary of state and of the Wells Fargo Express Company, and no evidence was introduced to show that during such time the integrity of the boxes was preserved. The contestee unnecessarily assumed the burden of showing that the boxes had been tampered with in this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gallegos v. Miera
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.