Montgomery v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably State Ex Rel. Newsome v. Alarid (1977), Farmington National Bank v. Basin Plastics, Inc. (1980)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Palisades Properties, Inc. v. Brunetti · State Trust & Savings Bank v. Hermosa Land & Cattle Co. · Frederick v. Younger Van Lines · Campbell v. Campbell · 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the policy of this court to construe its rules liberally to the end that causes on appeal may be determined on the merits, where it can be done without impeding or confusing administration or perpetuating injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vigil v. State
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.