Gillmor v. Gillmor’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2011
14 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 27 Utah 2d 286 - Del Porto v. Nicolo · McBride v. McBride · Jensen v. Brown · Provo City Corp. v. Nielson Scott Co. · Automotive Manufacturers Warehouse, Inc. v. Service Auto Parts, 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial buildings and improvement of such diverse nature and lands of such diversity of development and production would be inequitable [because together they formed a single farming unit]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clawson v. Silver“[O]n the critical ultimate issue of whether the partition is fair and equitable, we reverse only if appellant shows that the trial court abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court must be accorded broad discretion in fashioning an appropriate decree of partition.”
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.