Hicks v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• eliminating the common law defense of sovereign immunity in tort claims against the government, to which the legislature responded by enacting the TCA
• abolishing common law sovereign immunity prospectively so as to give the legislature opportunity to create a risk management fund and to institute selective statutory sovereign immunity
• abolishing common law sovereign immunity prospectively so as to give the legislature opportunity to create a risk management fund and to institute selective statutory sovereign immunity
• abolishing sovereign immunity but only with respect to cases arising in future
• abolishing common law sovereign immunity for tort actions, citing Sangre de Cristo
• abolishing common law sovereign immunity for tort actions, citing Sangre de Cristo

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

119 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jones v. State Highway Commission
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1977-09-12· cited 204×
• Scott v. Rizzo
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1981-02-12· cited 179×
• Pruett v. City of Rosedale
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-11-10· cited 173×
• Trujillo v. City of Albuquerque
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-09-08· cited 163×
• Schear v. Board of County Commissioners
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1984-08-06· cited 155×
• Lopez Ex Rel. Lopez v. Maez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1982-09-13· cited 140×
• Brown v. Wichita State University
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-03-06· cited 138×
• Vanderpool v. State
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1983-07-26· cited 131×
• Methola v. County of Eddy
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1980-12-31· cited 125×
• Ramirez v. Armstrong
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1983-12-21· cited 109×
• Nieting v. Blondell
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1975-10-31· cited 109×
• Wilson v. Nepstad
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-07-25· cited 94×
• Austin v. Mayor of Baltimore
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-09-13· cited 88×
• Worthington v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1979-07-18· cited 85×
• Garcia v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1996-05-21· cited 83×
• Oroz v. Board of County Com'rs of Carbon County
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1978-03-15· cited 77×
• Beavers v. Johnson Controls World Services, Inc.
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-09-02· cited 74×
• Cauley v. City of Jacksonville
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-16· cited 72×
• Marrapese v. Rhode Island
  D. Rhode Island· 1980-10-10· cited 71×
• Romero v. Byers
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-03-16· cited 65×

Cites

29 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Linkletter v. Walker
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 2,898×
• Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1959-12-16· cited 560×
• Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District
  California Supreme Court· 1961-01-27· cited 527×
• Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 419×
• Hargrove v. Town of Cocoa Beach
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-06-28· cited 285×
• Niederman v. Brodsky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 260×
• Stone v. Arizona Highway Commission
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1963-04-25· cited 255×
• Spanel v. Mounds View School District No. 621
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1962-12-14· cited 235×
• Battalla v. State
  New York Court of Appeals· 1961-07-07· cited 208×
• Flagiello v. Pennsylvania Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-03-22· cited 182×
• Willis v. Department of Conservation & Economic Development
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1970-04-20· cited 153×
• Parish v. Pitts
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1968-06-03· cited 139×
• Becker v. Beaudoin
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1970-02-09· cited 102×
• Barker v. City of Santa Fe
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1943-04-14· cited 84×
• Sangre De Cristo Development Corp. v. City of Santa Fe
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1972-11-22· cited 71×
• Evans v. Board of County Commissioners
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1971-03-22· cited 60×
• Dougherty v. Vidal
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1933-04-06· cited 48×
• Flores v. Flores
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1973-01-19· cited 41×
• Ickes v. Brimhall
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1938-05-23· cited 39×
• Clark v. Ruidoso-Hondo Valley Hospital
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1963-03-29· cited 28×