Hiltsley v. Ryder’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2023
18 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 Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · Ashton v. Ashton · 18 Utah 2d 260 - LeGrand Johnson Corporation v. Peterson · Price-Orem Investment Co. v. Rollins, Brown & Gunnell, Inc. · Lopes v. Lopes
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts can generally make a legally binding adjudication only between the parties actually joined in the action”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ppellate courts may raise the issue [of joinder] sua sponte .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson · Dahl v. Dahl“A person ... shall be joined as a party in the action if ... (2) he claims an interest in the subject matter and is so situated that his absence may ... (ii) leave any of the persons already parties subject to a substantial risk of incurring double, multiple, or otherwise inconsistent obligations by reason of his claimed interest.”
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.