Stevens v. Collard’s Empirical Analysis
1992
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 · 26 Utah 2d 22 - Murdock v. Blake · Elmer v. Elmer · Becker v. Becker
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.
“Were the rule otherwise, a court asked to enter judgment by default would be obligated to do so in a case where a complaint sought damages for defendant’s “refusal to share her recipes with her neighbors, including plaintiff.” But such is not the case. Defendant’s failure to answer and ensuing default would require the court to accept the factual allegations as true, but the court would enter judgment as requested only if it determined those facts established an actionable claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[A]l party must show, in addition to the existence and extent of the change, that the change is significant in relation to the modification sought.'”
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.