Trefzer v. Stiles’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1985
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 Baltimore Potomac Railroad Company v. Catharine Landrigan J · Hogsett v. Hanna · Griego v. Conwell · Crespin v. Albuquerque Gas & Electric Co. · Henkel v. Hood
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.
““In New Mexico the amount recovered under the wrongful death statute, * * * under which this action was brought, never becomes a part of the assets of the community or of the decedent’s estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baca v. Baca
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.