State Ex Rel. Chavez v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2011 · most notably U. S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995), Ex Parte Ross (1975)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Flaska v. State · State ex rel. Ward v. Romero · State Ex Rel. Wettengel v. Zimmerman · City Commission v. State ex rel. Nichols · State ex rel. Chandler v. Howell
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person shall be qualified to hold the office of justice of the supreme court unless he be learned in the law, has been in the actual practice of law in this state or the Territory of New Mexico for at least three (3) years, or whose services upon the bench of any district court of this state or the Territory of New Mexico, when added to the time he may have practiced law, as aforesaid, shall be equal to three (3) years; shall be at least thirty (30) years of age, and a citizen of the United States; or unless he has resided in this state or the Territory of New Mexico at least three (3) years next prior to his election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hannett v. Jones“No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unconstitutionally adds additional qualifications”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.