2018 UT App 101 - State v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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

1. “Proximate cause has two elements. First, but-for causation must be present; indeed, proximate cause is that cause which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produced the injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred. Second, the harm must be foreseeable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2019 UT App 120 - State v. Randall

2. “The mandate rule, a subset of the law of the case doctrine, binds both the district court and the parties to honor the mandate of the appellate court. Under this rule, the decisions of an appellate court become the law of the case and cannot be reconsidered on remand.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2019 UT App 82 - Blocker v. Blocker

3. “It is the State's burden to prove that the victim has suffered economic injury and that the injury arose out of the defendant's criminal activities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Morrison