Lucero v. C. R. Davis Contracting Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1981 · most notably Schiller v. Southwest Air Rangers, Inc. (1975), Mascarenas v. Kennedy (1964)
25 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 Elsea v. Broome Furniture Co. · Webb v. New Mexico Pub. Co. · Stevenson v. Lee Moor Contracting Co. · Wilson v. Rowan Drilling Co. · Reynolds v. Ruidoso Racing Association, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In reviewing evidence on appeal, all disputed facts must be resolved in favor of the appellee and all reasonable inferences drawn from the evidence should be indulged in to support the judgment. The evidence must be viewed most favorable to the judgment. Totah Drilling Co. v. Abraham, 64 N. M. 380, 328 P.2d 1083 ; Martinez v. Archuleta, 64 N.M. 196 , 326 P.2d 1082 ; Waters v. Blocksom, 57 N.M. 368 , 258 P.2d 1135 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The Workmen's Compensation Act is remedial in nature; is given a liberal interpretation by both the trial and reviewing courts; reasonable doubts must be resolved in favor of the employee; its beneficent purposes may not be thwarted by technical refinement or interpretation; * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Castro v. Bass““ * * * liberality. of construction as to the weight and sufficiency of the evidence is indulged. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.