Vigos v. Mountainland Builders, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2024
23 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. Wood · Berry by and Through Berry v. Beech Aircraft · Myers v. McDonald · World Peace Movement of America v. Newspaper Agency Corp. · Plateau Mining Co. v. Utah Division of State Lands & Forestry
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plain language controls the interpretation of a statute, and only if there is ambiguity do we look beyond the plain language to legislative history or policy considerations.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] claim for compensation for temporary total disability benefits, temporary partial disability benefits, permanent partial disability benefits, or permanent total disability benefits is barred, unless an application for hearing is filed with the commission within six years after the date of the accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Statutes of limitations are intended to prevent unfair dilatory litigation against a defendant and to require that claims be litigated while proper investigation and preservation of evidence can occur.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.