Oatts v. Jorgenson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Metz Beverage Co. v. Wyoming Beverages, Inc. (2002), Bredthauer v. TSP (1993)
30 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 Boehm v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce · ABC Builders, Inc. v. Phillips · England v. Simmons · Jones Land & Livestock Co. v. Federal Land Bank of Omaha · TZ Land & Cattle Co. v. Condict
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider for the first time on appeal issues that were neither raised in, nor argued to, the trial court,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is unfair to reverse a ruling of a trial court for reasons that were not presented to it, whether it be legal theories or issues never formally raised in the pleadings nor argued to the trial court.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. Each of the four unities of interest, time, title, and possession must be present, with the added unity of person for a tenancy by the entirety; or 2. In the absence of one or more of the first four unities, it must be evident from the language of the instrument itself that the parties thereto intended to create a right of survivorship.”
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.