Perea v. Baca’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos (1994), 187 W. Va. 457 - TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp. (1992)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 129 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 El Dorado at Santa Fe, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners · State v. Arnold · Burch v. Foy · Yarbrough v. Montoya · Edington v. Alba
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A statute must be read and given effect as it is written by the Legislature, not as the court may think it should be or would have been written if the Legislature had envisaged all the problems and complications which might arise in the course of its administration____ Courts must take the act as they find it and construe it according to the plain meaning of the language employed.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n administrative construction given a statute by the agency charged with its administration is persuasive and will not be lightly overturned”
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.