Boyle v. Boyle’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2016
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 Jones v. Jones · English v. English · Paffel v. Paffel · Higley v. Higley · Searle v. Searle
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.
“The Utah Supreme Court has held that the purpose of alimony is to equalize the standard of living for both spouses, maintain them at their present standard of living as much as possible, and avoid the necessity of one spouse - receiving public assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullins v. Mullins“1) the financial conditions and needs of the wife [sic]; 2) the ability of the wife [sic] to produce a sufficient income for herself [sic]; and 3) the ability of the husband [sic] to provide support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruhsam v. Ruhsam“it would be inappropriate for [an appellate court] to reverse on an isolated item of property or debt distribution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullins v. Mullins
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.