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← 2018 UT 16 - Hammons v. Weber County

Hammons v. Weber County’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Harvey v. Cedar Hills City · Healthcare Services Group, Inc. v. Utah Department of Health · Neilson v. San Pete County · Woodbury Amsource, Inc. v. Salt Lake County

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

  1. “As a general rule, when adjudicating a dispute we apply the version of the statute that was in effect 'at the time of the events giving rise to [the] suit.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “and the current version of the statutes are inconsequential [to the] case, we cite to the current version.”
    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.