Schmitt v. Billings’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lipsky v. Commonwealth United Corp. · 21 Utah 2d 314 - Sheffield v. Turner · 26 Utah 2d 17 - Obray v. Malmberg · W. W. & W. B. Gardner, Inc. v. Park West Village, Inc. · Diamond v. Thompson
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.
“Utah R.Civ.P. 36(a) states: Each matter of which an admission is requested shall be separately set forth. The matter is admitted unless, within thirty days after service of the request or within such shorter or longer time as the court may allow, the party to whom the request is directed serves upon the party requesting the admission a written answer or objection addressed to the matter signed by the party or by his attorney”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitaker v. Nikols“It is clear that the sanctions of Rule 37(c) apply only to parties who unjustifiably fail to admit facts... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poulsen v. Poulsen
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.