McBride v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2016
1 district · 4 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 13 Utah 2d 133 - De Vas v. Noble · 14 Utah 2d 45 - Wheadon v. Pearson · 10 Utah 2d 83 - In Re the Estates of Williams · 24 Utah 2d 346 - Transamerica Title Insurance v. United Resources, Inc. · Christopher v. Larson Ford Sales, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Sjince the party moved against is denied the opportunity of presenting his evidence and his contentions, it is and should be the policy of the courts to act on such motions with great caution, to assure that a party whose cause might have merit is not deprived of the right to access to the courts for the enforcement of rights or the redress of wrongs.®”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gadd v. Olson“[WJhere ... there is a substantial likelihood that the proof may show that a party was so cheated, imposed upon, or unfairly dealt with that it should shock the conscience of the court to allow it to stand, the court should resolve doubts in favor of permitting the parties to present their evidence and have the issues determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Despain v. Despain“that intrinsic fraud will not usually be grounds for setting aside a judgment”
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.