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← 2018 UT App 222 - State v. Hunt

2018 UT App 222 - State v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
January 2026
most recently cited

1 district · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Kolender v. Lawson · Marion Energy, Inc. v. KFJ Ranch Partnership · State v. Green · LPI Services and/or Travelers Indemnity Co. v. McGee

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

  1. “When interpreting a statute, our objective is to give effect to the intent of the legislature in light of the purpose the act was meant to achieve.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “If the plain meaning of the statute can be discerned from its language, then we need not employ any other interpretive tools.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “under our rules of statutory construction, we look first to the statute's plain language to determine its meaning.”
    1 later decision 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.