21 Utah 2d 314 - Sheffield v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Higgins v. Salt Lake County (1993), Ledfors v. Emery County School District (1993)
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Stephens v. Conley · Kusah v. McCorkle · 10 Utah 2d 100 - Springville Banking Co. v. Burton · Ratliff v. Stanley · Riggs v. German
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The anciently established and almost universally recognized general rule which this court has consistently announced and adhered to is that the government, its agencies and officials performing governmental functions are protected by sovereign immunity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here one inmate has injured another, the warden and other prison officers are protected by the doctrine of sovereign immunity against claims of negligence so long as they are acting in good faith and within the scope of their duties, and that they could not be held liable unless they were guilty of some conduct which transcended the bounds of good faith performance of their duty by a wilful or malicious wrongful act which they know or should know would result in injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. Schackel“If such officials are too vulnerable to lawsuits for anything untoward which may happen to inmates a number of evils follow, including a breakdown of discipline and the fact that capable persons would be discouraged from taking such public positions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. Schackel
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.