25 Utah 2d 277 - Nelson v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2014
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 21 Utah 2d 431 - Trade Commission v. Skaggs Drug Centers, Inc. · Boughton v. Price · Pickens v. Johnson · 23 Utah 2d 383 - Rampton v. Barlow · 34 Wash. 2d 131 - State Ex Rel. New Washington Oyster Co. v. Meakim
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In order to preserve the independence and the integrity of the three branches of government, it is of the utmost importance that the judicial exercise restraint and not intrude into the legislative prerogative.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Herrera
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.