Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1994
24 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 26 Utah 2d 430 - Moore v. Prudential Insurance Company of America · 26 Utah 2d 277 - Harding v. Harding · 26 Utah 2d 436 - Harmon v. Harmon · Searle v. Searle · 29 Utah 2d 436 - Ring v. Ring
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although this Court may weigh the evidence and substitute its judgment for that of the trial court in divorce actions, this Court will not do so lightly and merely because its judgment may differ from that of the trial judge. A trial court’s apportionment of property will not be disturbed unless it works such a manifest injustice or inequity as to indicate a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Savage v. Savage“The determination of the trial court that there [has or has not] been a substantial change of circumstances... is presumed valid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Wells
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.