Martinez v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably Flores v. Flores (1973), Rivera v. Brazos Lodge Corp. (1991)
4 federal appellate · 44 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 Walker v. New Mexico & Southern Pacific Railroad · Hester v. Sawyers · State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Dority · Snow v. Abalos · State Ex Rel. State Game Commission v. Red River Valley 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Particularly, we have never followed it in connection with our waters, 'but, on the contrary, have followed the Mexican or civil law, and what is called the Colorado doctrine of prior appropriation and beneficial use.””
2 later decisions 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.