Bonham v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably State v. Larsen (1993), Clover v. Snowbird Ski Resort (1991)
1 district · 68 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 Madsen v. Borthick · Johnson v. Utah State Retirement Board · P.I.E. Employees Federal Credit Union v. Bass · Moyle v. Salt Lake City · Tanner v. Humphreys, State Engineer
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In construing ... statutes, we attempt to ascertain legislative intent behind ambiguous language. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“rely[ing] on the plain language of [those related] statutes [in which] no ambiguity exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in harmony with other statutes under the same and related chapters”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.