2008 UT App 246 - Davis v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2022
6 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 State v. Pena · State ex rel. A.R. & C.P. v. C.R. · Moon v. Moon · In Re Estate of Flake · Lund v. Brown
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Utah common law, a settlor has power to modify or revoke a trust only to the extent the trust documents permit, and only in the particular manner or cireumstances identified as allowable under the terms of the trust documents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A trust is a form of ownership in which the legal title to property is vested in a trustee, who has equitable duties to hold and manage it for the benefit of beneficiaries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because Young has failed to successfully challenge [the trial court's] findings, we accept them as true.”
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.