Greener v. Greener’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 4 Utah 2d 76 - Lovett v. Continental Bank and Trust Company (1955), Sine v. Harper (1950)
1 district · 32 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 Stanley v. Stanley · Holt v. Bayles · Holman v. Deseret Savings Bank · Christensen v. Ogden State Bank · Lundgreen v. Lundgreen
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That proof is convincing which carries with it, not only the power to persuade the mind as to the probable truth or correctness of the fact it purports to prove, but has the element of clinching such truth or correctness. Clear and convincing proof clinches what might be otherwise only probable to the mind.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““However, since both of the parties in the instant case are still alive, we need not concern ourselves with the reasoning employed to support the conclusive presumption of intent where one of the parties has died before the assertion of conflicting rights.” [ 116 Utah 571 , 212 P.2d 199 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We think that the evidence and the conclusions which could reasonably have been made therefrom were such to permit the mind of the trial judge to attain as a reasonable man to the state of being clearly convinced * * (Italics added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sine v. Harper
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.