Rubalcava v. Garst’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

49 state decisions

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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] `vested right' is the power to do certain actions or possess certain things lawfully, and is substantially a property right, and may be created either by common law, by statute, or by contract. And when it has been once created, and has become absolute, it is protected from the invasion of the Legislature by those provisions in the Constitution which apply to such rights. And a failure to exercise a vested right before the passage of a subsequent statute, which seeks to divest it, in no way affects or lessens that right. (Emphasis added.)”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ashbaugh v. Williams · Pierce v. State Ex Rel. New Mexico Taxation & Revenue Department

2. “. . [h]ence any law which in its operations amozmts to a denial or obstruction of the rights accruing by a contract, though professing to act only on the remedy, is directly obnoxious to the prohibition of the Constitution.’ ” [Emphasis added] [ 53 N.M. at 298 ]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mitschelen v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance