4 Utah 2d 378 - Covington Ex Rel. Covington v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1974
2 district · 8 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 2 Utah 2d 381 - Coombs v. Perry · Martin v. Stevens · 3 Utah 2d 392 - Gittens v. Lundberg · 3 Utah 2d 354 - Hewitt v. General Tire and Rubber Company · Mingus v. Olsson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . as to what constitutes a proper lookout is usually ... a latter-day classic question for jury determination, and each trial and appellate court must determine the question as a matter of law only when convinced that reasonable persons could not disagree upon the question. . . . 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brock v. Ward
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.