Hansen v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2025
11 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 Morton International, Inc. v. Auditing Division of the Utah State Tax Commission · Russell v. Thomson Newspapers, Inc. · State v. Willis · People v. Lucero · Redwood Gym v. Salt Lake County Commission
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although 'evidence of general reputation, cohabitation, and assumption of marital rights and duties would be evidence of consent, such evidence 'standing alone, would not be sufficient.' 'Section 80-1-4.5 requires general reputation, cohabitation, and assumption of marital obligations as separate elements in addition to consent.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[TJhe standard of proof generally applied in civil proceedings is the preponderance of the evidence standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kimball v. Kimball“Evidence of each element is essential [to establish an unsolemnized marriage].”
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.