11 Utah 2d 208 - State v. Berchtold’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2020
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Erwin · 2 Utah 2d 281 - State v. Penderville · 4 Utah 2d 76 - Lovett v. Continental Bank and Trust Company · Robinson v. Helena Light & Ry. Co. · State v. Lingman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require an intentional accident nor the choosing of a highly dangerous course while fully conscious or aware of the danger confronting him in choosing such course. [However] [i]t does require the choosing of a course with grave and marked dangers, and the driver must be conscious and aware of the course he chooses, and such course must be so fraught with danger that all reasonable persons if they thought about it could not fail to recognize the danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryan“When the death of any person ensues within one year as a proximate result of injury received by the driving of any vehicle in reckless disregard of the safety of others, the person so operating such vehicle shall be guilty of negligent homicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryan“`defendant consciously chose a course of action knowing that such course would place his guests in grave and serious danger or with knowledge of facts which would disclose such danger to any reasonable person.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryan
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.