Fox v. Doak’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Cave v. Cave (1970), Spingola v. Spingola (1978)
82 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 Tapia v. Panhandle Steel Erectors Company · Burruss v. B. M. C. Logging Co. · Latta v. Harvey · Tuttle v. Tuttle · Kitts v. Shop Rite Foods, 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion, Wilson v. Employment Sec. Comm’n, 74 N.M. 3 , 389 P. 2d 855 , and has been defined as evidence of substance which establishes facts from which reasonable inferences may be drawn.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cave v. Cave““Judicial discretion is a discretion which is not arbitrary, vague or fanciful, or controlled by humor or caprice, but is a discretion governed by principle and regular procedure for the accomplishment of the ends of right and justice. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Merrill v. Merrill““Substantial evidence means such relevant evidence as a ' reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.” (Citing Wilson v. Employment Sec. Com’n, 74 N.M. 3 , 389 P.2d 855 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Davis
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.