17 Utah 2d 65 - Klafta v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * [T]his court has in a number of cases, * * * reaffirmed the view, which we think is the correct one, that violation of a standard of safety set by statute * * * is to be regarded as prima facie evidence of negligence, but is subject to justification or excuse if the evidence is such that it reasonably could be found that the conduct was nevertheless within the standard of reasonable care under the circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Louise D. Hansen v. Nicholas Moving & Storage, Inc., Formerly Known as City Transfer & Storage Co., Inc., an Idaho Corporation, and Hughie F. Weighall