15 Utah 2d 254 - Snyder v. Clune’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 21 Utah 2d 431 - Trade Commission v. Skaggs Drug Centers, Inc. (1968), 20 Utah 2d 108 - Young v. Barney (1967)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 57 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 Bode v. Flynn · Clawson v. Boston Acme Mines Development 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . In connection with the plaintiff’s contention it is necessary to also consider our nonresident motorist act, Sec. 41-12-8, U.C.A.1953, which was enacted in 1943, (S.L.U.1943, Ch. 68, Sec. 12). It authorizes service upon a nonresident of the state by serving the Secretary of State. The effect of this is to constitute the Secretary of State as the agent of a nonresident motorist to receive process for him. Further pertinent to this problem is Rule 4(e)(1) U.R.C.P., which states that personal service may be made upon a defendant ‘ * * * by delivering a copy to an agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process.’ (Emphasis added.) The defendants thus had an agent within the state upon whom process could have been served for them, and they were thus not ‘absent’ from the state in the sense contemplated by the statute, that is, unavailable for the service of process. Therefore, the plaintiff was not prevented from commencing her action at any time she desired. That being so, there exists no reason for tolling the running of the statute. When the reason for the rule is gone, the rule should vanish with it. Appropos is the statement of Justice Holmes: “ ‘It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule than that it was so laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.’ ” [From Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Pa”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“. .. attempts to give universal and literal application to statutes frequently lead to incongruous results which were never intended ... [Therefore] ... to give a statute its true meaning and significance it should be considered in the light of its background and the purpose sought to be accomplished, together with other aspects of the law which have a bearing on the problem involved. [ 15 Utah 2d 255 , 390 P.2d 915 .]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the purpose of the tolling statute ... 'to prevent a defendant from depriving a plaintiff of the opportunity of suing him by absenting himself from the state during the period of limitation'”
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.