Pearson v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2019
16 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 5 Utah 2d 79 - Wilson v. Wilson · 1 Utah 2d 34 - Callister v. Callister · 19 Utah 2d 378 - Stone v. Stone · Jankele v. Texas Co. · Klein v. Klein
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be respected and given great weight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in regard to the matter of the sufficiency of findings of fact, a substantial compliance with Rule 52, Utah Rules of Civil Procedure, is-sufficient, and findings of fact and conclusions of law will support a judgment, though they are very general, where they in most respects follow the allegation of the pleadings. Findings should be limited to the ultimate facts and if they ascertain ultimate facts, and sufficiently conform to the pleadings and the evidence to support the judgment, they will be regarded as sufficient, though not as full and as complete as might be desired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colman v. Colman“[tlhe court need not necessarily abide by the terms of the litigant[s'] stipulations”
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.