Gardner v. Davis County’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2012
5 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 28 Utah 2d 121 - Cottonwood City Electors v. Salt Lake County Board of Commissioners · City and County of Denver v. Currigan · Schulte v. Salt Lake City · 15 Utah 2d 57 - Clayton v. Salt Lake 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some flexibility in planning for contingencies and adapting to changes in circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must necessarily be allowed a reasonable latitude of judgment and discretion.”
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.