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← 2007 UT 96 - Rothstein v. Snowbird Corp.

Rothstein v. Snowbird Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Patton v. United States · Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp. · Berube v. Fashion Centre, Ltd. · Hawkins Ex Rel. Hawkins v. Peart · Mohawk Drilling Co. v. McCullough Tool 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[tlo pluck a principle of public policy from the text of a statute and to ground a decision of this court on that principle is to invite judicial mischief.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “'[T]he theory of public policy embodies a doctrine of vague and variable quality, and, unless deducible in the given circumstances from constitutional or statutory provisions, should be accepted as a basis for judicial determinations, if at all, only with the utmost cireumspection.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “easily shaped to satisfy the preferences of a judge rather than the will of the people or the intentions of the legislature”
    3 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.