Peck v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2021
17 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 State v. Abellano · State v. Jamison · State v. Buford · 20 Utah 2d 138 - Gord v. Salt Lake City · 22 Utah 2d 377 - State v. Peterson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is elementary that the governing authority in the exercise of its police power has both the prerogative and the responsibility of enacting laws which will promote and conserve the health, safety, morals and general welfare of society.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f there is a choice as to the matter of ... [a statute's] interpretation and application, that should be done in a manner which will make it constitutional, as opposed to one which would make it invalid.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whatever one’s personal views may be of such matters, the legislative authority of our state has determined as a matter of public policy that [keeping or using a game cock for the purpose of fighting or presence as a spectator at such fighting] is so involved in public morals and welfare that it has made cruelty to animals a crime and included therein the causing of one animal to fight with another.... The county ordinance in question is in harmony with and does not extend the concept determined as the public policy of our state by the statute referred to. In consequence of what we have said above, we are in agreement with the expression of respected authorities that legislation against such practices as the fighting of animals is justified for the purpose of regulating morals and promoting the good order and general welfare of society.”
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.