State Ex Rel. Miera v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Sims v. Sims (1996), Silva v. State (1987)
43 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 Shaw v. Railroad Co. · State Ex Rel. Hannah v. Armijo · German Insurance v. Landram · Callwood v. Callwood · In re Davis' Estate
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts will not add to such a statutory enactment, by judicial decision, words which were omitted by the [L]egislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chatterjee v. King“`No statute is to be construed as altering the common law, further than its words import.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]tatutes in derogation of the common law must be strictly construed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vallejos v. Barnhart
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.