Foote v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably IHC Health Services, Inc. v. D & K MANAGEMENT, INC. (2008), Giusti v. Sterling Wentworth Corp. (2009)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 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 Farrar v. Hobby · Valcarce v. Fitzgerald · Dixie State Bank v. Bracken · Pino v. Locascio · Griffith v. State of Colorado, Division of Youth Services
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An award of attorney fees must be based on the evidence and supported by findings of fact.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“Fees provided for by contract ... are allowed only in strict accordance with the terms of the contract.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Generally, attorney fees in Utah are awarded only as a matter of right under a contract or statute.”
3 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.