2005 UT App 204 - Cache County v. Beus’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`A trial court cannot consider the issue of entitlement to appellate attorney fees on its own initiative because this decision is the sole prerogative of the appellate court. The only time a trial court has any discretion in the matter of appellate attorney fees is when an appellate court determines that appellate attorney fees are warranted, but remands the issue to the trial court for a determination of the amount to be awarded.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Anderson v. Thompson

2. “If attorney fees are recoverable by contract, a party is entitled only to those fees attributable to the successful vindication of contractual rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2010 UT App 361 - Gilbert Development Corp. v. Wardley Corp.

3. “[R]eviewing whether a district court complied with the mandate [of an appellate court] presents a question of law, which we review for correctness.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Anderson v. Thompson