Soffe v. Ridd’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2020
19 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 Management Services Corp. v. Development Associates · 3 Utah 2d 59 - Jacobson v. Swan · Perkins v. Spencer · Forrester v. Cook · 14 Utah 2d 355 - Strand v. Mayne
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case actual damage and liquidated damage amounts are very disproportionate. Liquidated damages of $20,725 do not bear a reasonable relationship to $5,895 actual damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[plrovisions in written contracts providing for the payment of attorney[] fees should ordinarily be honored by the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where no compelling reasons appear otherwise.”
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.