Ashton v. Ashton’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Walker (1987), Crookston v. Fire Insurance Exchange (1991)
61 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 Scharf v. BMG Corp. · Parks v. Zions First National Bank · 25 Utah 2d 366 - Wagner v. Olsen · Zion's First National Bank v. Fennemore · Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City v. Mitsui Investment 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No error in either the admission or the exclusion of evidence, and no error or defect in any ruling or order or in anything done or omitted by the court or by any of the parties, is ground for granting a new trial or otherwise disturbing a judgment or order, unless refusal to take such action appears to the court inconsistent with substantial justice. The court at every stage of the proceeding must disregard any error or defect in the proceeding which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not only that an error occurred, but that it was substantial and prejudicial in that appellant was deprived in some manner of a full and fair consideration of the disputed issues by the jury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A constructive trust is an equitable remedy which arises by operation of law to prevent unjust enrichment.”
2 later decisions 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.