9 Utah 2d 139 - Moody v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2010
7 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 7 Utah 2d 163 - Ephraim Theatre Company v. Hawk · RICHLANDS IRR. CO. v. WESTVIEW IRR. CO. Et Al. · 6 Utah 2d 314 - Radley v. Smith · Johnson v. Geddes · Ball v. Wright
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the lease, which included the option, was signed and made reference to the contract merely as a document containing the terms of sale.... These terms might as well have been noted on any document, so long as it was identifiable and incorporated by reference into the signed document. Such a paper would require no signature mor would the contract in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Johnson
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.