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Becker v. Sunset City’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 2025
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Goss v. Lopez · In re of the Discipline of Grimes · Ivory Homes, Ltd. v. Utah State Tax Commission · Worrall v. Ogden City Fire Department · Utah Ass'n of Counties v. Tax Commission Ex Rel. American Telephone & Telegraph 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In conducting a substantial evidence review, we do not reweigh the evidence and independently choose which inferences we find to be the most reasonable,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Instead, we defer to [a lower tribunal's] findings because when reasonably conflicting views arise, it is the [fact-finder's] province to draw the inferences and resolve these conflicts.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[a] decision is supported by substantial evidence if there is a quantum and quality of relevant evidence that is adequate to convince a reasonable mind to support a conclusion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.