Bastian v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2022
21 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 Lazarus v. Phelps · Rucker v. Dalton · 6 Utah 2d 187 - Gould v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Redwood Gym v. Salt Lake County Commission · Romrell v. Zions First National Bank, N.A.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[although an award of damages based only on speculation cannot be upheld, it is generally recognized that some degree of uncertainty in the evidence of damages will not suffice to relieve a defendant from recompensing a wronged plaintiff. As long as there is some rational basis for a damage award, it is the wrongdoer who must assume the risk of some uncertainty. Where there is evidence of the fact of damage, a defendant may not escape liability because the amount of damage cannot be proved with precision.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ogden · Sampson v. Richins“It is the power and responsibility of the Legislature to enact laws to promote the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of society, and this Court will not substitute our judgment for that of the Legislature with respect to what best serves the public interest. The adjustment and accommodation of conflicting interests, such as are involved in this case, are for the Legislature to resolve, irrespective of the rules applied by other states.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parduhn · State v. Parduhn“[i]t is the power and responsibility of the [L]egislature to enact laws to promote the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare of society ... and [we] will not substitute our judgment for that of the [L]egislature with respect to what best serves the public interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Herrera · State v. Durant
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.