Dansie v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 1992
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 Herr v. Salt Lake County
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If plaintiff should contend that the statute is not mandatory, then in addition to other authorities unnecessary to cite here, this court, in a very recent case, Herr v. Salt Lake County, 525 P.2d 728 (Utah), 1974, and cases therein mentioned, seem to be quite dispositive as to any interpretation of the words `shall' and `must' used in the statute here (73-3-15), as being anything but mandatory, and not discretionary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Provo City v. Hansen“Some may not approve the legislation, subject of this case, but in substance and effect it is nothing more nor less than a limitations statute, which may be displeasing to one who is its victim, but which like other similar statutes is one of repose, designed to put a time barrier against litigation, in determining the precious water rights in this arid state...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Provo City v. Hansen
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.