Crouse v. Crouse’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2025
22 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 Hogge v. Hogge · Maughan v. Maughan · Burt v. Burt · Saunders v. Sharp · Elmer v. Elmer
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Utah Code section 30-3-3] grants trial courts the power to award attorney fees in divorce cases, which award must be based on evidence of the reasonableness of the requested fees, as well as the financial need of the receiving spouse, and the ability of the other spouse to pay. Both the decision to award attorney fees and the amount of such fees are within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Child v. Child“[i]n Elmer , the Utah Supreme Court did not replace the Hogge-Becker test with a new test requiring the trial court to look solely at the best interests of the child. Rather, Elmer merely incorporated evidence concerning the best interests of the child into the changed circumstances test in nonlitigated custody cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Cummings v. Cummings“A trial court's decifion concerning modification of a divorce decree will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion. Moreover, [ilt is the burden. of the party seeking modification of a divorce decree to demonstrate that there has been a substantial change in circumstances that justifies modification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.