State v. Spears

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing the Legislature’s “power to discriminate between persons already lawfully pursuing an occupation subject to the police power and persons who may thereafter seek to engage in the same business.”
• explaining difference between administrative and legislative acts of public officer or board, in context of challenge to delegation of power by legislature
• real estate brokers licensed under old law permitted to continue to practice without taking examination
• “If the regulations or actions of an official or board authorized by statute do not in effect determine what the law shall be ... such regulation or action is administrative, and not legislative, in its nature and effect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Regents of the University of New Mexico v. New Mexico Federation of Teachers
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-06-23· cited 144×
• Madrid v. St. Joseph Hospital
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1996-07-22· cited 107×
• State v. Druktenis
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2004-01-30· cited 100×
• Cobb v. State Canvassing Board
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2006-05-16· cited 59×
• Gruschus Ex Rel. Estate of Adams v. Bureau of Revenue
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1965-02-08· cited 51×
• McBriety v. CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-02-20· cited 42×
• State Ex Rel. Holmes v. State Board of Finance
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1961-12-19· cited 39×
• State Ex Rel. City of Albuquerque v. Lavender
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1961-07-13· cited 32×
• Wylie Bros. Contracting Co. v. Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1969-09-05· cited 27×
• Schmitt v. Hunt
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1960-12-19· cited 26×
• Hatfield v. New Mexico State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1955-07-29· cited 20×
• Casillas v. S.W.I.G.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1981-04-09· cited 17×
• State v. Collins
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1956-04-25· cited 16×
• Fischer v. Rakagis
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1955-06-29· cited 15×
• Thompson & Tomada Enterprises, Inc. v. McKinley County
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-08-20· cited 12×
• Pine v. Leavitt
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1968-09-05· cited 11×
• Airco Supply Company v. Albuquerque National Bank
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1961-03-15· cited 11×
• Unite New Mexico v. Oliver
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2019-02-07· cited 11×
• State Ex Rel. Stratton v. Sinks
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1987-07-02· cited 8×
• Safeway Stores, Inc. v. City of Las Cruces
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1971-04-26· cited 8×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Michigan Central Railroad v. Powers
  Supreme Court· 1906-04-02· cited 123×
• People v. Western Fruit Growers
  California Supreme Court· 1943-07-14· cited 96×
• Clark v. Rossier
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1904-10-03· cited 62×
• State v. Call
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 1897-09-05· cited 52×
• Davy v. McNeill
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1925-10-09· cited 51×
• State ex rel. Hughes v. Milhollan
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1923-08-20· cited 46×
• Hutcheson v. Atherton
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1940-01-13· cited 42×
• State v. Briggs
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1904-08-01· cited 29×
• Arnold v. Board of Barber Examiners
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1941-01-15· cited 28×
• Del Mar Canning Co. v. Payne
  California Supreme Court· 1946-12-06· cited 22×
• State Ex Rel. New Mexico Dry Cleaning Board v. Cauthen
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1944-09-13· cited 22×
• Fillmore Union High School District v. Cobb
  California Supreme Court· 1935-12-30· cited 15×
• Driscoll v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1892-10-20· cited 15×
• Modesto Bank v. Owens
  California Supreme Court· 1898-06-16· cited 14×
• Hargan v. Purdy
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1892-10-22· cited 11×
• Webster v. State Board of Health
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1908-10-30· cited 6×
• Smith v. State Board of Dental Examiners
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1902-04-29· cited 3×