Smith v. Mity Lite’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2011
3 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 Allen v. Industrial Commission · Grace Drilling Co. v. Board of Review · 15 Utah 2d 410 - United Park City Mines Company v. Prescott · VanLeeuwen v. Industrial Com'n of Utah · Carter v. Hanrath
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[when an agency has discretion to apply its factual findings to the law, we will not disturb the agency's application unless its determination exceeds the bounds of reasonableness and rationality.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“not supported by substantial evidence when viewed in light of the whole record before the court.”
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.