28 Utah 2d 343 - Lark v. Whitehead’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 3 Utah 2d 385 - Ritholz v. City of Salt Lake · 7 Utah 2d 28 - Stevenson v. Salt Lake City Corporation · Nasfell v. Ogden City · 27 Utah 2d 94 - Townsend v. Board of Review of the Industrial Commission · 27 Utah 2d 71 - Salt Lake City v. Davison
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Nasfell v. Ogden City, [3] this court stated that it was committed to the principle that cities have none of the elements of sovereignty and that any fair, reasonable, substantial doubt concerning the existence of the power is resolved by the courts against the corporation (city) and the power denied; grants of power to cities are strictly construed to the exclusion of implied powers which are not reasonably necessary in carrying out the purposes of the express powers granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allgood v. Larson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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