Allen v. Friel’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Johnson (2017), Rivers v. Exec. Dir. of the Utah Dep't of Envtl. Quality & the Dir. of the Utah Div. of Water Quality (2017)
178 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 Strickland v. Washington · 21 Utah 2d 96 - Brown v. Turner · Nelson v. Jacobsen · Brown v. Glover · State v. Allen
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that issues raised by an appellant in the reply brief that were not presented in the opening brief are considered waived and will not be considered by the appellate court.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“If an appellant fails to allege specific errors of the lower court, the appellate court will not seek out errors in the lower court's decision.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appellate court is not a depository in which [a party] may dump the burden of argument and research.”
14 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.