3 Utah 2d 102 - Ramirez v. Ogden City’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably Condemarin v. University Hospital (1989), Standiford v. Salt Lake City Corp. (1980)
32 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 Bolster v. City of Lawrence · 1 Utah 2d 244 - Davis v. Provo City Corp. · Driggs v. Utah Teachers Retirement Board · Niblock v. Salt Lake City · Rollow v. Ogden City
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ‘governmental function,’ as to which municipality is immune from tort liability, must be something done or furnished for the general public good, and whether there is special pe cuniary beneficial profit to municipality and whether activity is of such a nature as to be in real competition with free enterprise are facts to be considered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the act is for the common good of all without the element of special corporate benefit or pecuniary profit,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeBry v. Noble
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.