Weese v. Davis County Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2025
5 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 Thompson v. United States · Clover v. Snowbird Ski Resort · Hamblin v. City of Clearfield · Ferree v. State · Buehner Block Co. v. UWC ASSOCIATES
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party claiming promissory estoppel must establish the following: (1) a promise reasonably expected to induce reliance; (2) reasonable reliance inducing action or forbearance on the part of the promisee or a third person; and (@) detriment to the promisee or third person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Id. at 571 (citation omitted); cf. Weese v. Davis County Comm'n, 834 P.2d 1, 3 (Utah 1992) ('The county only has those rights and powers granted it by the Utah Constitution and statutes or those implied as a necessary means to accomplish them.”
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.