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← 79 N.M. 771 - Merchant v. Worley

Merchant v. Worley’s Empirical Analysis

1969

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 1979
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jones v. New Mexico School of Mines · Smith v. Loos · Melson v. Bank of New Mexico · Tabet v. Sprouse-Reitz Co. · Edwards v. Ross

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. As stated above, § 50A-1-201, supra, requires the showing of a lack of good faith by the party against whom the power has been exercised. The New Mexico courts have not defined”
    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.