2009 UT App 10 - Leppert v. Leppert’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2023
18 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 2008 UT App 11 - Stonehocker v. Stonehocker · Woodward v. Woodward · Willey v. Willey · Griffith v. Griffith · State v. STEPHEN F.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, when the trial court awards fees in a domestic action to the party who then substantially prevails on appeal, fees will also be awarded to that party on appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a clear and prejudicial abuse of discretion is demonstrated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[TJhe trial court's award or denial of attorney fees must be based on evidence of the financial need of the receiving spouse, the ability of the other spouse to pay, and the reasonableness of the requested fees.”
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.