Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2020
15 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 State v. Carter · Hogge v. Hogge · State in Interest of JJT · Morton v. Continental Baking Co. · T.B. v. M.M.J.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Als the Utah Supreme Court emphasized ..., although some of Rule 87s discovery sanctions are harsh and extreme, ... we will not interfere with the trial court's imposition of discovery sanctions ..., unless [an appellant] clearly shows the trial court abused its discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tuck v. Godfrey · Ford v. Ford“[the important public policy to have courts ensure that a child's best interests will be met before transferring custody of the child applies in all cases involving a change in a child's custody....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“allows courts to monitor the best interests of children and especially to provide stability to children by protecting them from 'ping-pong' custody awards”
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.