19 Utah 2d 189 - Ellis v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Berube v. Fashion Centre, Ltd. (1989), Great American Insurance Company v. Murray (1969)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Lucas v. District Court · 52 Cal. 2d 437 - Shapiro v. Republic Indemnity Co. of America · Johanek v. Aberle · Broadway & Ninety-Sixth Street Realty Co. v. Loew's Inc. · 17 Utah 2d 261 - Robinson v. Hreinson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Utah Supreme Court has stated that the general purpose of discovery is 'to remove elements of surprise or trickery so the parties and the court can determine the facts and resolve the issues as directly, fairly and expeditiously as possible”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in effect a third-party beneficiary of the insurance of a wrongdoer who injures him, ... [i]t is only reasonable that the plaintiff should have some means of discovering whether a policy exists, and what its provisions are so he can know whether covenants upon which his rights may depend are being complied with.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. County v. Jensen“[It runs contrary to this purpose and casts an unfavorable reflection upon the integrity of the court and the attorneys if they must treat ... the existence of insurance as though it would corrupt the whole procedure if the lawyers and the court knew about it.”
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.