Yelderman v. Yelderman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2025
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 United States v. Davis · 15 Utah 2d 422 - Holland v. Brown · Imel v. United States · Creek Nation v. United States · Lamkin v. Lynch
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.
“The weight and credibility of [a] witness, including expert testimony, . . . are matters to be determined by the trier of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is within the province of the fact finder to believe those witnesses or evidence it chooses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sorensen v. Sorensen
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.