Sprague v. Straub’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1998
9 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 12 Utah 2d 265 - Utah State Land Board v. Utah State Finance Commission
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was the intention of the people in adopting Article XI, § 6 not only to avoid the loss of the state's assets but also to pronounce, in effect, the state's duty as trustee in dealing with the property of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`the State of Oregon and other public employers' have no proprietary interest in the Public Employe[e]s' Retirement Fund....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“county, city, town or other municipal corporation ... ”); Fla. Const, art. VII, § 10 (”
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.