Hickman v. Mylander’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably Montano v. Saavedra (1962), Frederick v. Younger Van Lines (1964)
29 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 State Ex Rel. Del Curto v. District Court of Fourth Judicial Dist. · Allred v. Sasser · Penn-Texas Corp. v. Morse · State Ex Rel. Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Worden · Town of Tome Land Grant, Inc. v. Ringle Development 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is merely an agent of the state with such powers, and only such, as have been conferred upon him by the constitution and laws of the state, as limited by the [New Mexico] Enabling Act.”
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.