Castro v. Bass’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably Transport Indemnity Company v. Garcia (1976), Sweitzer v. Sanchez (1969)
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 Reed v. Styron · Royal Indemnity Co. v. Southern California Petroleum Corp. · Jackson v. Southwestern Public Service Company · Noblin v. Randolph Corp. · Brown v. Arapahoe Drilling Company
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.
“[W]hen damages are sought and recovered from the tortfeasor, the amount of the recovery is for the full loss or detriment suffered by the injured party and makes him financially whole. ‡ * * * * * Plaintiff having recovered ... [her] damages representing payment in full for . .. [her] injuries . .. [she] may not thereafter claim compensation in addition.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]s was said in Kandelin v. Lee Moor Contracting Co., supra, [ 37 N.M. 479 , 24 P.2d 730 (1933)] § 59-10-25, N.M.S.A. 1953 [§ 52-1-56(C)] is intended to deny an injured workman both compensation from his employer and a recovery from the third party, and if he has collected from the negligent party causing the injury he cannot thereafter recover compensation. [Emphasis added.] [ 74 N.M. 258 , 392 P.2d 667 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... our statute contemplated that an employee receiving compensation had a right to sue a third party tortfeasor responsible for his injury; that this right was for the entire amount of damages suffered by the workman with the employer or his insurer to be reimbursed out of any amounts received.”
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.