Lucero v. Los Alamos Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably Hernandez v. Mead Foods, Inc. (1986), Strickland v. Roosevelt County Rural Electric Cooperative (1982)
39 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 Medler v. Henry · Van Orman v. Nelson · Ross v. Sayers Well Servicing Company · Taylor v. McBee · Ortega v. New Mexico State Highway Department
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court was not bound to accept the percentage evaluations of any one of the three doctors. Medical testimony, like other expert evidence, is intended to aid but not to conclude the trier of the facts in determining the extent of disability. Seal v. Blackburn Tank Truck Service, 64 N.M. 282 , 327 P.2d 797 (1958); Seay v. Lea County Sand and Gravel Company, 60 N.M. 399 , 292 P.2d 93 (1956). [ 79 N.M. 791 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Here, the trial court, as trier of the facts, rejected all the medical opinions as to the percentage of plaintiff’s disability. This he could properly do. He arrived at a different percentage, which was properly within his province as the trier of facts, so long as it was supported by substantial evidence.”
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.