6 Utah 2d 433 - Sugar v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1989
11 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 6 Utah 2d 226 - Buehner Block Company v. Glezos · 6 Utah 2d 367 - Nalder v. Kellogg Sales Company · Eilertsen v. WEBER · Liebman v. Buell Lumber & Mfg. Co.
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.
“In determining whether or not there is an original promise or a collateral promise under a given set of facts, the intention of the parties governs. This intention is to be ascertained from the words of the promise, the situation of the parties and all the circumstances surrounding the transaction.”
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.