Costilla Estates Development Co. v. Mascarenas’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably Department of Revenue & Taxation v. Irvine (1979), Metzger v. Ellis (1959)
27 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 Jahren v. Butler · In re Lewisohn
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not questioned that Jahren v. Butler, 20 N.M. 119 , 147 P. 280 , laid down the correct rule, in quoting from 24 Cyc. 765, as follows: “ ‘A judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, upon the merits of a controversy, is conclusive between the parties and those in privity with them, upon every question of fact directly in issue, determined in the action.’ ””
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.