8 Utah 2d 419 - Parrish v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably St. Benedict's Development Co. v. St. Benedict's Hospital (1991), Culbertson v. Board of County Commissioners (2001)
25 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 6 Utah 2d 102 - O'Gara v. Findlay · Reese Howell Co. v. Brown
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have, however, held, and are firmly committed to the doctrine, that we will have recourse to every aid, rule, or canon of construction to ascertain the intention ■of the parties before having recourse to the rule of construing the language of the parties either most strongly against or in favor of either of them. * * * Under such circumstances it should be the aim of courts, as, no doubt, it is their duty, to ascertain and declare the intention of the parties, since that, and nothing else, constitutes their contract; •and it is the duty of the courts to enforce, not to make, contracts. If, therefore, we can ascertain or determine the •intention of the parties to the deed in question by having recourse to the ordinary rules of interpretation and construction, we may not invoke the rule insisted on by appellant’s counsel.”
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.