State Supreme Court / N.M.

Tapia v. Panhandle Steel Erectors Company

Decided May 8, 1967. Merrill Emmett Noble wrote the opinion for the court.

428 P.2d 625 · Cited 174 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Reed v. Styron · 365 P.2d 912
Baros v. Kazmierczwk · 362 P.2d 798
Sturgeon v. Clark · 364 P.2d 757
Landrum v. Roddy · 143 Neb. 934
Lucero Ex Rel. Lucero v. Torres · 350 P.2d 1028
Montano v. Saavedra · 373 P.2d 824
Ziraldo v. W. J. Lynch Co. · 6 N.E.2d 125
Krametbauer v. McDonald · 104 P.2d 900
Brown v. Cobb · 204 P.2d 264
Griego v. Conwell · 222 P.2d 606
Totah Drilling Company v. Abraham · 328 P.2d 1083
Wilson v. Employment Security Commission · 389 P.2d 855
Zamora v. Smalley · 358 P.2d 362
Renfro v. JD Coggins Company · 378 P.2d 130
Hall v. Stiles · 57 N.M. 281
Vivian v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. · 363 P.2d 620
Hayden v. Paramount Productions, Inc. · 33 Cal. App. 2d 287
Tipton v. Clower · 356 P.2d 46
Beck v. Monmouth Lumber Co. · 59 A.2d 400
Barakos v. Sponduris · 325 P.2d 712
Romero v. H. A. Lott, Inc. · 369 P.2d 777
Viramontes v. Fox · 335 P.2d 1071
Gerrard v. Harvey & Newman Drilling Company · 282 P.2d 1105
Chandler v. Battenfield · 233 P.2d 1047
Terry v. Biswell · 345 P.2d 217

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