State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1987
12 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 932
Relies on Ervien v. United States · Taos County Board of Education v. Sedillo · Ortega v. Otero · Dillard v. New Mexico State Tax Commission · Ross v. Trustees of University
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * This fact [the appropriateness of mandamus] has caused us to determine the case on its merits, although the action was brought for a declaratory judgment. It is, therefore, unnecessary to pass upon the question whether under our Declaratory Judgments Act, § 22-6-1 et seq., NMSA, 1953, an action will lie against a state department or official at the suit of another state department or official. In this connection see: Taos County Board of Education v. Sedillo, 1940, 44 N.M. 300 , 101 P.2d 1027 ; and Arnold v. State, 1944, 48 N.M. 596 , 154 P.2d 257 .” ( 61 N.M. at 376 , 301 P.2d at 318 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Notwithstanding our high regard for the Arizona Supreme Court and its decisions, we feel their cases are based on the strained reasoning and inferences condemned in the opinions in United States v. Ervien, supra.” State v. Walker, 61 N.M. 374, 380 , 301 P.2d 317, 321 (1956).”
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.