Larsen v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2022
12 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 State v. Dunn · State v. Knight · State v. Hamilton · State v. Verde · State v. Harrison
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[Wle will find error in a relevancy ruling only if the trial court has abused its discretion. Additionally, an erroneous evidentiary ruling will lead to reversal only if, absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood that there would have been a more favorable result. . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court has broad discretion in determining the relevancy of offered evidence, and error will be found only if the trial court abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[alny error [by the trial court] was not obvious because the law in Utah and in other jurisdictions [was] unsettled”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pacheco
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.