Colorado v. New Mexico’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 219 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 727 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Cruzan Ex Rel. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990), 135 S. Ct. 1932 - Wellness Int'l Network, Ltd. v. Sharif (2015)
75 federal appellate · 219 district · 75 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Addington v. Texas · State of Wyoming v. State of Colorado · State of Nebraska v. State of Wyoming
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 727 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an abiding conviction that the truth of [the] factual contentions are [sic] 'highly probable.'”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the ultimate responsibility for deciding”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“respect and a tacit presumption of correctness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.