Benson v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2007
1 district · 2 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 16 Utah 2d 30 - Thompson v. Ford Motor Company · 9 Utah 2d 275 - Webb v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation · 12 Utah 2d 25 - Charvoz v. Cottrell · Andrus v. State · 17 Utah 2d 65 - Klafta v. Smith
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.
“While in some jurisdictions, violation of a statute designed to protect those in the plaintiff’s position from the type of injury incurred by the plaintiffs as a result of defendant’s action establishes negligence as a matter of law, in Utah, such violation is prime facie evidence of negligence only. This means, in essence, that the standard of conduct prescribed by the statute does not supplant the usual standard of care incumbent upon the individual involved ..., but is merely probative of the defendant’s compliance or non-compliance with that standard. As such, even given a statutory violation, the negligence or non-negligence of the defendant remains an issue for the trier of fact____”
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.