Stockard v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Shovelin v. Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative, Inc. (1993), State v. Lucero (2007)
60 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 Owen v. Terrell · Southwestern Savings Loan & Building Ass'n v. Awalt · First Nat. Bank v. Scott
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No act of the legislature shall affect the right or remedy of either party, or change the rules of evidence or procedure, in any pending case.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The word ‘pending,’ according to Webster and Century Dictionary, means ‘depending,’ ‘remaining undecided,’ ‘not terminated,’ and this meaning_ of the word should be adopted in this connection. The evident intention of the Constitution is to prevent legislation interference with matters of evidence and procedure in cases that are in the process or course of litigation in the various courts of the state, and which have not been concluded, finished, or determined by a final judgment. This provision of the Constitution was inserted for the purpose of curing a well-known method, too often used in the days when New Mexico was under a territorial form of government, to win cases in the courts by legislation which changed the rules of evidence and procedure in cases which were then being adjudicated by the various courts of the state.””
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.