Bartholomew v. Bartholomew’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2008
12 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 Otis v. Superior Court of L.A. Cty. · 15 Utah 2d 216 - Hamilton v. Salt Lake County Sewerage Improvement District No. 1 · Stovall v. Crosby · 23 Utah 2d 365 - State v. Tritt · Brown v. Cook
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision to hold a party in contempt of court rests within the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed on appeal unless the trial court's action 'is so unreasonable as to be classified as capricious and arbitrary, or a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The obligee may enforce his right of support against the obligor and the state department of social services may proceed on behalf of the obligee, or in its own behalf pursuant to chapter 45b of this title to enforce that right of support against the obligor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bodily
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.