Utah County v. Baxter’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2018
15 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 City of New Orleans v. Liberty Shop, Ltd. · 19 Utah 2d 329 - Gibbons & Reed Company v. North Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County v. Kartchner · Tanner v. Baadsgaard
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a showing that the zoning ordinance has been violated is tantamount to a showing of irreparable injury . . . to the public.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“injunctive relief is available only when intervention of a court of equity is essential to protect against 'Irreparable injury,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exceptional circumstances must be present[,] such as the intentional discriminatory application of the ordinance[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.