Stevens v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2022
24 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 Los Angeles Gas Electric Corporation v. Railroad Commission of California · State v. Walker · Jones v. Jones · Acton v. Deliran · Gardner v. Gardner
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'should ... include enough subsidiary facts to disclose the steps by which the ultimate conclusion on each factual issue was reached.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[flailure to consider the[] [Utah Code section 30-3-5(8)(a) ] factors constitutes an abuse of discretion”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Failure of the trial court to make findings on all material issues is reversible error unless the facts in the record are clear, uncontroverted, and capable of supporting only a finding in favor of the judgment. The findings of fact must show that the court’s judgment or decree follows logically from, and is supported by, the evidence. The findings should be sufficiently detailed and include enough subsidiary facts to disclose the steps by which the ultimate conclusion on each factual issue was reached.”
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.