Olseth v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2025
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Pennoyer v. Neff · 23 Cal. 3d 630 - Dew v. Appleberry · 15 Utah 2d 254 - Snyder v. Clune · Bray v. Bayles
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.
“Is the statute of limitations tolled under Utah Code. Ann. § 78-12-35 when a person against whom a claim has accrued has left the state of Utah and has no agent within the state of Utah upon whom service of process can be made instead, but the person is amenable to service pursuant to Utah’s long-arm statute, Utah Code Ann. § 78-27-24 ?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If where the cause of action shall acerue against a person, he is out of the Territory, the action may be commenced within the term Rkerein limited, after his return to the Territory; and if after the cause of the action shall have accrued, he depart the Territory, the time of his absence shall not be part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arnold v. Grigsby“Utah Code section 78-12-35 (“Utah’s tolling statute”) does toll the applicable statute of limitations when a person against whom a claim has accrued has left the state of Utah and has no agent within the state upon whom service of process can be made, even where the person was at all times amenable to service pursuant to Utah’s long-arm statute.”
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.