13 Utah 2d 368 - Heathman v. Giles’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Morton International, Inc. v. Auditing Division of the Utah State Tax Commission (1991), State v. Anderson (1980)
49 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.
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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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the meaning of doubtful words or phrases be determined in the light of and take their character from associated words and phrases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In regard to the issue of constitutionality: it is generally held, and we think properly so, that after having determined that a statute does not apply to the case in hand, the court will not go beyond and consider its constitutionality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.