State v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2019
22 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 Fergus v. Russel · State ex rel. Clancy v. Hall · Cardoza v. Pillsbury · Baca v. Board of County Commissioners · Miller v. Washington County
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is next contended that the act in question is in violation of the Constitution of the state, in that it attempts to transfer the duties of the Attorney ■General of the state to undesignated individuals, who are not law officers of the state of New Mexico. There is no merit in this contention. The state ■Constitution does not prescribe the duties of the Attorney General, and it ■must be evident that the Legislature, ■unless limited by some direct constitutional provision, has the power to direct how, when, where, and by whom the state shall be represented in all matters, whether of litigation or otherwise." [ 23 N.M. 422 , 168 P. 719 .] (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Torres v. Grant
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.