Kendall v. Olsen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]e will not reverse a ruling of the district court that rests on independent alternative grounds where the appellant challenges only one of those grounds.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Rigby · 2019 UT App 99 - Wollsieffer v. Wollsieffer

2. “When an appellant saves an issue for the reply brief, he deprives the appellee of the chance to respond. And that leaves us without a central tenet of our justice system-adversariness. That is fatal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Smith

3. “We have consistently held 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.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Howick v. Salt Lake City Corp.