Plummer v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Continental Oil Co. v. Oil Conservation Commission (1962), City of Albuquerque v. Reynolds (1962)
27 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 Ex Rel. Bliss v. Dority · Ferguson-Steere Motor Co. v. STATE CORPORATION COM'N · 4 Utah 2d 370 - Bullock v. Tracy · Commissioner of Public Lands v. Van Bruggen
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]n appeal from his decision, the [state] engineer becomes a proper, if not an indispensable, party. We find the general rule announced at 73 C.J.S., Public Administrative Bodies and Procedures, § 178, as follows: ‘In the absence of a statutory provision as to parties, the question with respect to who may or must be joined as parties to a proceeding to review the decisions and orders of an administrative agency is governed by the rules as to parties in civil actions generally. Accordingly, only necessary or proper parties may be joined, and the agency which made the order in question is usually considered a necessary, or at least a proper party, particularly where there is a public interest to be protected as distinguished from that of the parties directly affected by the order of the agency.’”
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.