23 Utah 2d 441 - Grover v. Garn’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2016
17 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 Cleaves v. Thompson · 17 Cal. 2d 690 - Wiseman v. Sierra Highland Mining Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An estoppel by the conduct or admissions of a party ... it is, and always was, a familiar principle in the law of contracts. It lies at the foundation of morals and is a cardinal point in the exposition of promises, that one shall be bound by the state of facts which he has induced another to act upon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would sanetion a fraud or promote injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. M.J. v. Wisan
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.