2 Utah 2d 404 - Taylor v. Patten’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2007
2 district · 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 Thompson v. Thompson · Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson · Rains v. Rains · Peters v. Peters · Brandt v. Keller
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A wife may receive the wages for her personal labor... and may prosecute and defend all actions for the preservation and protection of her rights and property as if unmarried... .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Contracts may be made by a wife . . and enforced by ... her ... to the same extent and in the same manner as if she were unmarried.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"There shall be no right of recovery by the husband on account of personal injury or wrong to his wife * * * but the wife may recover against a third person for such injury or wrong as if unmarried, * * *." (Emphasis added.)”
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.