14 Utah 2d 317 - Wilson v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011
14 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 6 Utah 2d 177 - Nokes v. Continental Mining & Milling Co. · 8 Utah 2d 261 - Child v. Child · In Re Adoption of D____ · In Re Adoption of Walton · Taylor v. Waddoups
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A distinction should be made between leaving a child under circumstances which show a continuing intention to fulfill the duties of parenthood by seeing to it that the child is cared for and of possibly resuming such responsibility if that becomes necessary; as distinguished from an intent to completely and permanently abandon a child and parental responsibilities to it.”
2 later decisions 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.