Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2012
4 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 Barber v. State Highway Commission · Morrison-Kudson Co. v. State Board of Equalization · Board of County Commissioners v. Ridenour · Mentock v. Mentock · Lo Sasso v. Braun
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 29-1-201. Definitions; agency relationships presumed. (a) Except as otherwise provided, as used in this title: (i) "Contractor" means: (A) A person employed by and contracting with an owner to improve an owner's property.... [[Image here]] (#i) "Improve or improvement" means: [[Image here]] (B) Any work performed or material furnished for the permanent change of any real property; and [[Image here]] (v) "Owner" as used in this act means: (A) With respect to construction liens: any person with a legal or equitable interest in the property to be changed, altered or improved, for whose use or benefit any improvement shall be made or any materials furnished; [[Image here]] (vi) "Subcontractor" or "materialman" means a person other than a contractor performing work or furnishing materials to an owner or a contractor under contract;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the owner, even if we assume it contracted with the owner. In American Buildings Company v. Wheelers Stores, Wyo., 585 P.2d 845, 847 (1978), we said:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“person employed by and contracting with an owner to improve an owner's property, by performing work or furnishing materials.”
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.