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.
“[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 passagee.g. Bagley v. Bagley · State v. Parduhn“'[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“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 passagee.g. State v. Parduhn · State v. Parduhn
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.