9 Utah 2d 224 - Cahoon v. Pelton’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2023
2 district · 12 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 Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States · Estate of Hughes · 1 Utah 2d 362 - Wilson v. Oldroyd · 119 Cal. App. 2d 839 - Hamrick v. Hamrick · MacEdo v. MacEdo
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The common law of England so far as it is not repugnant to, or in conflict with, the constitution or laws of the United States, or the constitution or laws of this state ... is hereby adopted, and shall be the rule of decision in all courts of this state.”
2 later decisions 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.