Maughan v. Maughan’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Burt v. Burt (1990), Tolman v. Salt Lake County Attorney (1991)
59 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 State v. Walker · Management Services Corp. v. Development Associates · Hogge v. Hogge · Smith v. Smith · Kallas v. Kallas
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Egregious cases may include those obviously without merit, with no reasonable likelihood of success, and which result in the delay of a proper judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he `sanction' for bringing a frivolous appeal is applied only in egregious cases.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] frivolous appeal [is] one without reasonable legal or factual basis.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.