Lyon v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 2008 UT App 11 - Stonehocker v. Stonehocker (2008), State v. Perea (2013)
2 district · 62 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. Menzies · Berry by and Through Berry v. Beech Aircraft · Condemarin v. University Hospital · Horton v. Goldminer's Daughter · Day v. State Ex Rel. Utah Department of Public Safety
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the legislature should be accorded broad discretion in providing an alternative remedy”
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.