Kawamoto v. Fratto’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2025
9 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 Society of Professional Journalists v. Bullock · 10 Utah 2d 195 - Tuttle v. Hi-Land Dairyman's Association · Turner v. Hi-Country Homeowners Ass'n · Faux v. Mickelsen · Kapetanov v. Small Claims Court of Ogden
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tlhe issue of the right to a jury trial in small claims court may have constitutional dimensions that we would have to address in a case in which the issue was properly preserved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chilel v. Simler“[the decision of the trial de novo [following a small claims court ruling] may not be appealed unless the [district] court rules on the constitutionality of a statute or ordinance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[simall claims matters shall be managed in accordance with simplified rules of procedure and evidence promulgated by the Supreme Court.”
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.