Court opinions
Cite a decision of the New Mexico Supreme Court with the case name, the reporter citation, and a parenthetical that gives the year, adding the state’s abbreviation when the reporter is a regional one.
The examples below use N.M..
The book’s Table A lists New Mexico’s courts, reporters and citation rules.
Each citation is printed as the book prints it, from an authority the book checked against its source.
Bianco v. Horror One Prods., 2009-NMSC-006, 145 N.M. 551.
The authority
Where the book teaches this
State v. Sandoval, No. S-1-SC-40845 (N.M. Sept. 9, 2026).
The authority
Where the book teaches this