Gallegos v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Anaya v. New Mexico Steel Erectors, Inc. (1980), Cardenas v. United Nuclear Homestake Partners (1981)
46 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 Lozano v. Archer · Yates v. Matthews · Grisham v. Nelms · Curbello v. Vaughn · Baca v. Gutierrez
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“NMSA 1978, Section 52-1-28(B) provides: In all cases where the defendants deny that an alleged disability is a natural and direct result of the accident, the workman must establish that causal connection as a medical probability by expert medical testimony. No award of compensation shall be based on speculation or on expert testimony that as a medical possibility the causal connection exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.