22 Utah 2d 348 - Mosley v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Citaramanis v. Hallowell (1992), State v. Fedorowicz (2002)
32 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 John E. Rosasco Creameries, Inc. v. Cohen · Comet Theatre Enterprises, Inc. v. Cartwright · Olsen v. Reese · 11 Utah 2d 273 - Platt v. Locke · 4 Utah 2d 396 - Ross v. Producers Mutual Insurance Company
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]ailure to obtain a license which is required by a statute enacted solely for revenue purposes does not render contracts made by the offending party void.... [Cjontracts made by an unlicensed contractor when in violation of a statute passed for the protection of the public are held to be void and unenforceable.”); see also Mosley v. Johnson, 22 Utah 2d 348 , 453 P.2d 149, 151 (1969) (stating that this rule operates only where a statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In cases involving an action to *Page 920 recover for work performed by an unlicensed well driller, etc., the penalty prohibiting him from recovering in the courts is severe enough, and the one for whom the work was performed may not add to that penalty by recovering back that which was voluntarily paid for the work done by such an unlicensed person.”
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.