11 Utah 2d 155 - Cecil v. Cecil’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2013
2 district · 20 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 2 Utah 2d 49 - Austad v. Austad
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though it be conceded that the annulment cannot be collaterally attacked, nevertheless what effect an annulment has on a divorced husband’s obligation to continue alimony payments to his former wife is to be determined by what a court could reasonably find is equitable under the facts and circumstances. 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferguson v. Ferguson“. and her attempted marriage did not adversely alter or change his circumstances so that it would be inequitable to require him to continue his alimony payments. 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferguson v. Ferguson“[I]n the case of an annulment, the judgment is that there was never a valid marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corwell v. Corwell
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.