DeVilliers v. Balcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1980
18 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 State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Pelletier · Drink, Inc. v. Babcock · Wynne v. Pino · Prude v. Lewis · Nelms v. Miller
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * An overpayment in one period by one who has purchased real estate under a contract obligating him to pay a specified sum or more each period does not relieve him of the duty of paying the specified amount on each and every payment date thereafter. * * *." 79 N.M. at 573 , 446 P.2d at 221 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zerkel v. Lindsey
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.