Kelley v. Carlsbad Irrigation District’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Llano, Inc. v. Southern Union Gas Company (1964), Wilson v. Employment Security Commission (1963)
49 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 Ma-King Products Co. v. Blair · Continental Oil Co. v. Oil Conservation Commission · State Ex Rel. Hovey Concrete Products Co. v. Mechem · Yarbrough v. Montoya · Johnson v. Sanchez
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * is limited to questions of law and restricted to whether, based upon the legal evidence produced at the hearing before the state engineer, that officer acted fraudulently, arbitrarily or capriciously; whether his action was substantially supported by the evidence; or, whether the action was within the scope of state engineer’s authority.” 71 N.M. at 467 , 379 P.2d at 764 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any applicant or other party dissatisfied with any decision, act or refusal to act of the state engineer may take an appeal to the district court * * *. The proceeding upon appeal shall be de novo, except evidence taken in hearing before state engineer may be considered as original evidence, subject to legal objection the same as if said evidence was originally offered in such district court, * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * For the same reason, it must follow that, just as the commission cannot perform a judicial function, neither can the court perform an administrative one. . [Citing cases] This is the net effect of the admission and consideration by the trial court of the additional evidence in this case. Such a procedure inevitably leads to the substitution of the court’s discretion for that of the expert administrative body. We do not believe that such procedure is valid constitutionally. * * * ””
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.