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27 Utah 2d 103 - Felt v. Felt’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 1992
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on MacDonald v. MacDonald · 1 Utah 2d 34 - Callister v. Callister · Cody v. Cody · 25 Utah 2d 87 - Allen v. Allen · Short v. Short

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

  1. “. . . a divorce decree containing awards for support based on either expressed or assumed facts contemplated by the parties or the court or both, should not be modified when the contemplated facts are obvious or agreed to by the parties and in turn incorporated in the decree, in which ‘event the continuous jurisdiction of the court to modify should not be used to thwart the expressed or obvious intentions of the parties and/or the court, — unless such contemplated facts lead to manifest injustice or unconscionable inequity ....”
    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.