13 Utah 2d 266 - Heathman v. Hatch’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Nelson v. Jacobsen (1983), Armed Forces Insurance Exchange v. Harrison (2003)
29 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 Morris v. Farnsworth Motel
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"that the essential facts upon which redress is sought be set forth with simplicity, brevity, clarity and certainty so that it can be determined whether there exists a legal basis for the relief claimed; and, if so, so that there will be a clearly defined foundation upon which further proceedings by way of responsive pleadings and/or trial can go forward in an orderly manner."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'must be set forth with sufficient particularity to show what facts are claimed to constitute such charges.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'because of his lack of technical knowledge of law and procedure [a layman acting as his own attorney] should be accorded ev- ery consideration that may reasonably be indulged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lundahl v. Quinn
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.