Trees v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2024
16 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 30 Utah 2d 154 - Jensen v. Eddy · State v. Tucker · Ottenheimer v. Mountain States Supply Co. · Hollingsworth v. Farmers Insurance Co. · Cornia v. Cornia
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[aln appellant who accepts the benefits of a judgment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a party to an action accepts the benefits of a judgment in his favor or acquiesces in a judgment against him he thereby waives his right to have said judgment reviewed on appeal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“who accepts a benefit under a judgment is estopped from later attacking the judgment on appeal.”
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.