West Jordan v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Morton International, Inc. v. Auditing Division of the Utah State Tax Commission (1991), 102 Wash. 2d 385 - Safeco Insurance v. Meyering (1984)
46 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 Millett v. Clark Clinic Corp. · Utah Hotel Co. v. Industrial Commission · 20 Utah 2d 138 - Gord v. Salt Lake City · Continental Oil Co. v. Board of Review of Industrial Commission · Knox v. Thomas
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] statute should be applied according to its literal wording unless it is unreasonably confused or inoperable. We must assume that each term in the statute was used advisedly by the Legislature and that each should be interpreted and applied according to its usually accepted meaning.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[if [our] interpretation brings about a result contrary to the intention of the Legislature, it is a matter for the Legislature to remedy. This Court may not do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t was the employer's decision to terminate the claimant rather than accept his nature of resignation, which has led to the result now faced by the employer.”
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.