25 Utah 2d 190 - Roberts v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1992
10 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 6 Utah 2d 226 - Buehner Block Company v. Glezos · Sorg v. Crandall · Eastern Ohio Oil Co. v. McEvoy · Crutcher v. Block · 16 Utah 2d 74 - METALS MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. Bank of Commerce
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is generally held that under the circumstances shown here, where one has taken possession under a purchase agreement, and enters into a contract for the construction of improvements thereon, he is deemed to be the equitable owner and is charged with the responsibilities of ownership within the meaning of the mechanic’s lien statutes.”
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.