2011 UT App 161 - Jacobsen v. Jacobsen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We review the legal adequacy of findings of fact for correctness as a question of law.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lay v. Lay · R.O. v. M.M.

2. “a misunderstanding or misapplication of the law resulting in substantial and prejudicial error, the evidence clearly preponderates against the findings, or such a serious inequity has resulted as to manifest a clear abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Liston v. Liston

3. “'The governing principle in our law is that contracts between spouses are enforceable and generally subject to ordinary contract principles....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kidd v. Kidd