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← 2018 UTAPP 137 - Lay v. Lay

Lay v. Lay’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
September 2025
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bagley v. Bagley · N.T. v. State · Rayner v. Rayner · 2014 UT App 239 - Tobler v. Tobler · 2017 UT App 192 - Shuman v. Shuman

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

  1. “[t]he [district] court's findings on remand must be sufficiently detailed and include enough subsidiary facts to disclose the steps by which the ultimate conclusion on [each] factual issue was reached.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “ensure that the district court's discretionary determination was rationally based,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “the parties are informed of the district court's reasoning,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.