Lemon v. Coates’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2014
17 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 15 Utah 2d 422 - Holland v. Brown · Wessel v. Erickson Landscaping Co. · Yelderman v. Yelderman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court as trier of the facts may then determine [the facts] and render judgment against the plaintiff or may decline to render any judgment until the close of all the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'failed to make out a prima facie case, " or (2) " 'when the trial judge is not persuaded by the evidence presented by the claimant”
4 later decisions 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.