26 Utah 2d 113 - Richards v. Hodson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Searle Bros. v. Searle (1978), Norman v. Murray First Thrift & Loan Co. (1979)
35 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 58 Cal. 2d 601 - Teitelbaum Furs, Inc. v. Dominion Ins. Co., Ltd. · 17 Utah 2d 80 - FMA Financial Corporation v. BUILD, INC · 5 Utah 2d 217 - Ney v. Harrison · 23 Utah 2d 259 - Butler v. Butler · 24 Utah 2d 120 - Holbrook v. Hodson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Strictly speaking, the term “res judica-ta” applies to a judgment between the same parties who in a prior action litigated the identical questions which are present in the later case. Not only are the parties bound by the ruling on matters actually litigated, but they are also prevented from raising issues which should have been raised in the former action. The rule of law is wise in that it gives finality to judgments and also conserves the time of the courts, in that courts should not be required to relitigate matters which have once been fully and finally determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevensen v. Bird
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.