Bilanzich v. Lonetti’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Giusti v. Sterling Wentworth Corp. (2009), 2010 UT App 139 - Connell v. Connell (2010)
2 district · 34 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 R.T. Nielson Co. v. Cook · Stewart v. Utah Public Service Commission · Buzas Baseball, Inc. v. Salt Lake Trappers, Inc. · State v. Martinez · Fericks v. Lucy Ann Soffe Trust
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court may award costs and attorney fees to either party that prevails in a civil action based upon any promissory note, written contract, or other writing executed after April 28, 1986, when the provisions of the promissory note, written contract, or other writing allow at least one party to recover attorney fees.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Generally, attorney fees are awarded only when authorized by contract or by statute.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the statute levels the playing field by allowing both parties to recover fees where only one party may assert such a right under contract, remedying the unequal allocation of litigation risks built into many contracts of adhesion.”
6 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.