Williams v. Montano’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2000
22 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 Mirabal v. International Minerals & Chemical Corp. · Montano v. Williams · Quintana v. Nolan Bros., Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every employer subject to the Workmen's Compensation Act [52-1-1 to 52-1-69 NMSA 1978] shall file in the office of the clerk of the district court for the county in which such workman is, or it is contemplated at the time of such agreement, such workman is to be employed, previous to or within thirty days after having made any such agreement, express or implied, with such workman, ... good and sufficient undertaking in the nature of insurance or, evidence thereof in the form of a certificate, or security for the payment to ... such injured workmen, or, in case of death, to the person appointed by the court to receive the same... . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any employer who has complied with the provisions of the Workmen's Compensaton Act [52-1-1 to 52-1-69 NMSA 1978], relating to insurance, ... shall not be subject to any other liability whatsoever for the death of or personal injury to any employee, except as provided in the Workmen's Compensation Act... . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The standard in New Mexico for foreclosure of an employee's common law remedies is whether the employer has substantially complied with the Workmen's Compensation Act. Strict compliance is not necessary.”
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.