Nickels v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1991
12 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 Campbell v. Smith · Dillard v. New Mexico State Tax Commission · City of Roswell, N.M. v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Owens v. Swope · Fischer v. Rakagis
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No contractor shall act as agent or bring or maintain any action in any court of the state for the collection of compensation for the performance of any act for which a license is required by the Construction Industries Licensing Act without alleging and proving that such contractor was a duly licensed contractor at the time the alleged cause of action arose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * a person, firm, copartnership, corporation, * * * who for either a price, fee, or percentage, undertakes * * * to construct, alter, repair, add to or improve any building, excavation, or other structure, project, development or improvement, * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crumpacker v. Adams
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.