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← 2017 UTAPP 40 - Smith v. Smith

Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 2008 UT App 11 - Stonehocker v. Stonehocker · Encon Utah, LLC v. Fluor Ames Kraemer, LLC · Bakowski v. Mountain States Steel, Inc. · 1 Utah 2d 320 - Hardinge Co. v. Eimco Corp. · 2015 UT App 308 - Earhart v. Earhart

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

  1. “As is our practice in cases where both parties share a last name, we refer to the parties by their first name with no disrespect intended by the apparent informality.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “specific provisions ordinarily will be regarded as qualifying the meaning of broad general terms in relation to a particular subject.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “consider each contract provision in relation to all of the others, with a view toward giving effect to all and ignoring none.”
    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.