Vigil v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably Martinez v. Research Park, Inc. (1965), State v. Deltenre (1966)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 Ringle Development Corporation v. Chavez · Scarlett v. Frederick · Mercantile Investment Co. v. Superior Court · 41 Tex. Civ. App. 154 - Kane v. Sholars · State ex rel. Pinkley v. Yount
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the provision for dismissal is mandatory, it does not arbitrarily require the proceeding to be terminated in two years. The period may be extended by written stipulation of the parties and there are other exceptions to the rule. Ringle Development Corporation v. Chavez, 1947, 51 N.M. 156 , 180 P.2d 790 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pettine v. Rogers
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.