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← 2010 UT 46 - Gardner v. State

Gardner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

41 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Michigan v. Long · Woodcock v. Chemical Bank · Don Vicente Macias, Inc. v. Texas Gulf Trawling Co. · Benner v. Ohio · 192 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Simms

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We review an appeal from an order dismissing or denying a petition for post-conviction relief for correctness without deference to the lower court's conclusions of law.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “(a) the last day for filing an appeal from the entry of the final judgment of conviction, if no appeal is taken; (b) the entry of the decision of the appellate court which has jurisdiction over the case, if an appeal is taken; (c) the last day for filing a petition for writ of certiorari in the Utah Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court, if no petition for writ of certiorari is filed; (d) the entry of the denial of the petition for writ of certiorari or the entry of the decision on the petition for ’ certiorari review, if a petition for writ of certiorari is filed; : (e) the date on which petitioner knew or should have known, in' the exercise of reasonable diligence, of evidentiary facts on which the petition is based; or (f) the date on which the new rule described in Subsection 78B-9-104(l)(f) is established.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “obligation to avoid addressing constitutional issues unless required to do so”
    5 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.