2011 UT App 311 - Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Generally, when the trial court awards [or should have awarded] fees in a domestic action to the party who then substantially prevails on appeal, fees will also be awarded to that party on appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 2016 UT App 146 - Thayer v. Thayer · 2012 UT App 259 - Black v. Hennig

2. “[A] trial court's interpretation of a statute is a question of law that we review for correctness.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Spall-Goldsmith v. Goldsmith · 2013 UT App 84 - Donnelly v. Donnelly

3. “To recover costs and attorney fees in proceedings on a petition to modify a divorce decree, the requesting party must demonstrate his or her need for attorney fees, the ability of the other spouse to pay, and the reasonableness of the fees.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 2019 UT App 99 - Wollsieffer v. Wollsieffer