Demers v. Gerety’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2021
16 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 In re Union Leader Corp. · Cave v. Cave · Jewell v. Seidenberg · Marsin v. Udall · State Ex Rel. Anaya v. Scarborough
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of law of the case has long been recognized in New Mexico, since before statehood * * * and since after statehood.” Ute Park Summer Homes Ass’n. v. Maxwell Land G. Co., 83 N.M. 558, 560 , 494 P.2d 971, 973 (1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Montoya““[t]here is as much obligation upon a judge not to recuse himself when there is no occasion as there is for him to do so when there is.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martinez v. Carmona
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.