Varney v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1995 · most notably Chavez v. Chenoweth (1976), Transport Indemnity Company v. Garcia (1976)
28 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 Sellman v. Haddock · Royal Indemnity Co. v. Southern California Petroleum Corp. · Kandelin v. Lee Moor Contracting Co. · Greene v. Verven · Christon v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The problem is troublesome, because, quite obviously, no litigant should be allowed to participate on both sides of a lawsuit. [ 71 N.M. at 445 , 379 P.2d at 85 ]. * * * * * * To allow unencumbered intervention would create such a potential conflict of interest that we do not believe it should be allowed. [ 71 N.M. at 447 , 379 P.2d at 86 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez v. Chenoweth
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.