18 Utah 2d 422 - Frehner v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2011
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 13 Utah 2d 339 - King Bros., Inc. v. Utah Dry Kiln Company · 9 Utah 2d 184 - Stanton Transportation Company v. Davis · 4 Utah 2d 364 - Backus v. Hooten · Headlund v. Daniels · Dwyer v. Salt Lake City Copper Manufacturing Co.
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.
“In any action brought to enforce any lien under this chapter the successful party shall be entitled to recover a reasonable attorneys' fee, to be fixed by the court, which shall be taxed as costs in the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is intended and designed to prevent the owner of land from taking the benefits of improvements placed on his property without paying for the labor and material that went into them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. Call“materialls] furnished and work done in the construction, alteration, or addition to or repair of any building, structure, or improvement upon land”
1 later decision 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.