Springer Corp. v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably Pierce v. State Ex Rel. New Mexico Taxation & Revenue Department (1995), State Ex Rel. Human Services Department v. Aguirre (1990)
30 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 Frei v. Brownlee · City of Raton v. Sproule · Gallegos Ex Rel. Estate of Gallegos v. Wallace · Silver City Consolidated School District No. 1 v. Board of Regents of New Mexico Western College · Romero v. Tilton
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Legislature is a co-ordinate branch of our state government. Its prerogative in the matter of legislation is to be questioned solely from the standpoint of our federal or state constitutional limitations. The function of the courts in scrutinizing acts of the Legislature is not to raise possible doubt nor to listen to captious criticism. The Legislature possessing the sole power of enacting law, it will not be presumed that the people have intended to limit its power or practice by unreasonable or arbitrary restrictions. Every presumption is ordinarily to be indulged in favor of the validity and regularity of legislative acts and procedure. * * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fellows v. Shultz““There are two mandatory steps claimant must take if he would have his claim allowed: (a) Filing a claim; and (b) notice of hearing thereon. We have held that both of these requirements must be met; otherwise, the claim is barred. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Avallone v. Koglin“We cannot say that, in the case before us, we are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the legislature went outside the constitution in enacting the challenged legislation.”
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.