Craig v. Provo City’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · English v. General Electric Co. · In the Matter of Russell E Sinclair Sr and M Marguerite Sinclairs · State v. Dean · Olsen v. Eagle Mountain City
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is usually quite beside the point that the legislature 'knows how' to speak more explicitly. That is another way of saying that the legislature could have spoken more clearly. And typically that gets us nowhere.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“governs all claims against governmental entities or against their employees or agents arising out of the performance of the employee's duties, within the scope of employment, or under color of authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schleger v. State“In any matter of statutory construction of any consequence, it will almost always be true that the legislature could have more clearly repudiated one party's preferred construction.”
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.