Laravel Find and Where querying

Question

Why does the following code return the exception "Call to a member function where() on a non-object"?

SomeModel::find( $id )->where('name', $name);

Answer 1

Because

SomeModel::find( $id );

Returns a model, not a Query Builder instance, it's the end of the query.

You must do

SomeModel::where('name', $name)->where('somethingElse', '=', 'value')->first();