19 Utah 2d 267 - Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1998
20 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 26 Cal. 2d 605 - Hough v. Hough · Bradley v. Superior Court · 1 Utah 2d 34 - Callister v. Callister · Myers v. Myers · Lyon v. Lyon
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the Plaintiff receive as his sole and separate property the 1979 Chevrolet truck, 1988 Starfire boat and motor, and one-half of the loan payment (payments being deposited in Plaintiff’s bank account), furniture and furnishings in his possession and his personal belongings. It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the Defendant receive as her sole and separate property the 1977 Mercury, her retirement benefits, the household furniture and furnishings now in her possession, and one-half of the loan payment from David C. Miller (payments being deposited in Defendant’s bank account), her personal belongings and effects.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Miller
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.