State v. Stovall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 28 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A governmental entity is liable for damages resulting from bodily injury, wrongful death or property damage caused by the negligence of public employees while acting within the scope of their duties in the operation or maintenance of public facilities within the jurisdiction of the employing governmental entity."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Martinez v. City of Cheyenne · Boehm v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce

2. “logical inference of the legislative intent,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allied-Signal, Inc. v. Wyoming State Board of Equalization · Basin Electric Power Cooperative v. Bowen

3. “[T]he state and its political subdivisions as trustees of public revenues are constituted to serve the inhabitants of the state of Wyoming and furnish certain services not available through private parties and, in the case of the state, state revenues may only be expended upon legislative appropriation. This act is adopted by the legislature to balance the respective equities between persons injured by governmental actions and the taxpayers of the state of Wyoming whose revenues are utilized by governmental entities on behalf of those taxpayers. This act is intended to retain any common law defenses which a defendant may have by virtue of decisions from this or other jurisdictions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White v. State