6 Utah 2d 425 - Lund v. Lund’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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

1. “"It would be a hard rule to hold that where the parties resume the marital relationship after entry of the [alimony] decree, that regardless of how happy the parties may have been for six months, one, two or three years, that one party could hold the ... decree over the head of the other and demand that the line be toed. With the realization that after the parties have become reconciled and have resumed the marital relationship, except in flagrant cases where fraud is present and good faith absent, the cause of action was dead and was no longer available to obtain a quick final decision, it is very probable that the parties might well be induced to try harder to make a success of the marriage in order not to be required to start from scratch.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kartchner v. Kartchner · Thomas v. Thomas

2. “written agreement containing any condition upon which the reconciliation and condonation were to be voided,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kartchner v. Kartchner

3. “bestowing on each other all the privileges and benefits of [the marital] relationship.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kartchner v. Kartchner