Reese v. Dempsey’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Montoya v. McManus (1961), Peyton v. Nord (1968)
30 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 State ex rel. Hart v. Common Council · Fancher v. Board of Commissioners · Hyland v. Rochelle · State ex rel. Clancy v. Hall · State v. Southern Pac. Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" * * * In the construction of a statute, in order to determine the true intention of the legislature, the particular clauses and phrases should not be studied as detached and isolated expressions, but the whole and every part of the statute must be considered in fixing the meaning of any of its parts. State [ex rel. People’s Bank & Trust Co. of Las Vegas] v. York, 24 N.M. 643 , 175 P. 796 . All parts of an act relating to the same subject should be considered together, and not each by itself. Sakariason v. Mechem, 20 N.M. 307 , 149 P. 352 . All legislation is to be construed in connection with the general body of the law. Dorman v. Sargent, 20 N.M. 413 , 150 P. 1021 . * *””
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.