Dls v. Utah’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
13 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 2004 UT App 337 - Berg v. State (2004), Baker v. USD 229 Blue Valley (2020)
13 district · 3 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent · Laird v. Tatum · Lawrence v. Texas
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have held that assurances from prosecutors that they do not intend to bring charges are sufficient to defeat standing, even when the individual plaintiff ha[s] actually been charged or directly threatened with prosecution for the same conduct in the past.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The chilling effect, to amount to an injury, must arise from an objectively justified fear of real consequences, which can be satisfied by showing a credible threat of prosecution or other consequences following from the statute's enforcement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has never been charged with sodomy [or fornication], prosecuted under the[se] statute[s], . . . directly threatened with prosecution,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.