14 Utah 2d 296 - Ortega v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2013
10 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 Toomer's Estate v. Union Pac. R. Co. · 9 Utah 2d 5 - Ivie v. Richardson · 4 Utah 2d 255 - Moore v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Co. · Startin v. Madsen · 3 Utah 2d 444 - Bowden v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in order to justify reversal[,] the appellant must show error that was substantial and prejudicial in the sense there is at least a reasonable likelihood that in the absence of the error the result would have been different.'”
2 later decisions 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.