21 Utah 2d 245 - Orton v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1997
2 district · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Free v. Farnworth · Brown v. Parker
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a party dies after a verdict or decision upon any issue of fact, and before judgment, the court may nevertheless render judgment thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKenzie v. McKenzie
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.