Webster v. Lehmer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2016
8 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 Ashton v. Ashton · Von Hake v. Thomas · 16 Utah 2d 378 - Bradbury v. Rasmussen · Hendee v. Walker Bank & Trust Co. · 4 Utah 2d 277 - In Re Swan's Estate
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Mere confidence [, however,] in one person by another is not sufficient alone to constitute such a relationship.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when [the tenant in common] died intestate in 1975, her interest, instead of passing solely to [the other tenant in common], passed by the rules of intestate succession to [the deceased tenant's] two daughters”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ashworth v. Bullock“'A confidential relationship arises when one party, having gained the trust and confidence of another, exercises extraordinary influence over the other par ty'”
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.