Davis v. Davis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• giving \considerable weight\ to the fact that one parent had been the child's \pri mary caregiver\ during the four years that divorce and custody proceedings were ongoing
• explaining that “the ultimate test of the propriety of an alimony award is whether, given all of these factors, the party receiving alimony will be able to support him- or herself as nearly as possible at the standard of living ... enjoyed during marriage” (omission in original
• \[Clonsiderable weight should be given to which parent has been the child's primary caregiver.\ (citing Pusey v. Pusey, 728 P.2d 117, 120 (Utah 1986))
• “considerable weight should be given to which parent has been the child’s primary caregiver”
• “In considering competing claims to custody between fit parents under the ‘best interests of the child’ standard, considerable weight should be given to which parent has been the child’s primary caregiver.”
• \So long as [the court's] discretion is exercised within the confines of the legal standards we have set ... we will not disturb the resulting {custody} award.\ (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

41 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Maughan v. Maughan
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-02-22· cited 60×
• Noble v. Noble
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-08-15· cited 58×
• Nickerson v. Nickerson
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-02-07· cited 57×
• Custody of Kali
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-08-01· cited 49×
• Bell v. Bell
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-04-23· cited 47×
• Howell v. Howell
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-02-28· cited 42×
• Rasband v. Rasband
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-04-18· cited 39×
• Naranjo v. Naranjo
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-03-22· cited 35×
• Bakanowski v. Bakanowski
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2003-10-23· cited 34×
• Childs v. Childs
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1998-10-01· cited 30×
• Hudema v. Carpenter
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1999-10-15· cited 30×
• Stevens v. Stevens
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-04-28· cited 28×
• Tucker v. Tucker
  Utah Supreme Court· 1996-01-17· cited 27×
• Schindler v. Schindler
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-06-06· cited 23×
• Paryzek v. Paryzek
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-06-06· cited 21×
• Thronson v. Thronson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-03-25· cited 19×
• Rule v. Rule
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2017-08-03· cited 19×
• Myers v. Myers
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-02-02· cited 16×
• Peterson v. Peterson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-10-15· cited 16×
• Moon v. Moon
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1990-03-19· cited 16×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jones v. Jones
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-04-17· cited 118×
• Matter of Adoption of Halloway
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-12-05· cited 114×
• Ashton v. Ashton
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-02-04· cited 76×
• English v. English
  Utah Supreme Court· 1977-06-02· cited 73×
• Gardner v. Gardner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-04· cited 70×
• Smith v. Smith
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-09-30· cited 56×
• Jorgensen v. Jorgensen
  Utah Supreme Court· 1979-08-20· cited 52×
• Becker v. Becker
  Utah Supreme Court· 1984-12-10· cited 51×
• Pusey v. Pusey
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-08-18· cited 49×
• Moody v. Moody
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-12-06· cited 25×
• Sanderson v. Tryon
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-06-16· cited 24×
• Hyde v. Hyde
  Utah Supreme Court· 1969-05-21· cited 16×
• Fontenot v. Fontenot
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-01-17· cited 15×
• Mitchell v. Mitchell
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-07-20· cited 8×