Mac Tyres, Inc. v. Vigil’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably Woolwine v. Furr's, Inc. (1987), State v. Chamberlain (1991)
52 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 Lucero Ex Rel. Lucero v. Torres · Fort v. Neal · Trujillo v. Chavez · Anderson v. Welsh · Selgado v. Commercial Warehouse Company
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence that a person was or was not insured against liability is not admissible upon the issue whether he acted negligently or otherwise wrongfully. This rule does not require the exclusion of evidence of insurance against liability when offered for another purpose, such as proof of agency, ownership or control, or bias or prejudice of a witness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he right to impeach a witness is basic to a fair trial,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well established in this jurisdiction that each party is entitled to an instruction on his theory of the case if he has pled it and there is evidence upon which the theory might be supported.”
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.