Shunk v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2018
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 Higgins v. Salt Lake County · Bischel v. Merritt · Forsman v. Forsman · East Jordan Irrigation Co. v. Morgan · Bellonio v. Salt Lake City Corp.
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.
“While “governing body” is not specifically defined in the Utah Governmental Immunity Act, at the time of Shunk’s accident, rule k of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure specified that service of process must be made on a local “school district ... by delivering a copy thereof to the president or clerk of the board.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that there is no basis to invoke an estoppel against defendants for misleading plaintiff by their answer”
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.