23 Utah 2d 47 - Hansen v. Barlow’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Burning Tree Club, Inc. (1984), State Ex Rel. Derryberry v. Kerr-McGee Corporation (1973)
6 district · 19 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 Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States · 135 N.J. Eq. 244 - Wilentz v. Hendrickson · Darling Apartment Co. v. Springer · Wilentz v. Hendrickson · State v. Finch
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the general consensus of opinion that in practically every state of this Union whose basis of jurisprudence is the common law, the office of attorney general, as it existed in England, was adopted as a part of the governmental machinery, and that in the absence of express restrictions, the common-law duties attach themselves to the office so far as they are applicable and in harmony with our system of government.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“After consideration of our Constitution, statutes and decisions of sister courts, we are of the opinion that it is within the right of the Attorney General, if not his duty to bring suits to clarify the constitutionality of laws enacted by the Legislature if he deems it appropriate. He is in a much more informed, duty-entrusted, and advantageous position to do so than the individual citizen and taxpayer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) to attend the Supreme Court of this state, and all courts of the United States, and prosecute or defend all causes to which the state, or any officer, board, or commission of the state in an official board, or commission of the state in an official capacity is a party; and has the charge, as attorney, of all civil legal matters in which the state is in anywise interested.”
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.