Sandoval v. Valdez’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Romero v. Dairyland Insurance (1990), Fiser v. Dell Computer Corporation (2008)
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 60 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 Chavez v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Ott v. Keller · Walton v. State ex rel. Road Commission · Bartlett v. Nationwide Mutual Ins. · FIRST NAT. BANK IN ALBUQUERQUE v. Benson
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough New Mexico applies the First Restatement of Conflicts generally, if the application of [a sister state's] law would violate New Mexico's public policy this Court is not bound.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jack Tucker v. R.A. Hanson Company, Inc., Lockheed-California Company, Division of Lockheed Corporation, and H.K. Ferguson Company, A/K/A M.K. Ferguson Company, Defendants-Third Party v. The Owl Companies, Third Party · Tucker v. Ra Hanson Company Inc Lockheed-California Company Division of Lockheed Corporation Hk Mk“an exclusionary provision of [the] insurance contract, enforceable only if it is not in conflict with statutory law or public policy of New Mexico.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“expand insurance coverage to protect the public from damage or injury caused by other motorists who were not insured and could not make the impaired party whole.”
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.