14 Utah 2d 205 - Cheney v. Rucker’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Prince v. Bear River Mutual Insurance Co. (2002), 17 Utah 2d 80 - FMA Financial Corporation v. BUILD, INC (1965)
82 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 45 Cal. 2d 462 - Freedland v. Greco · 11 Utah 2d 389 - Charlton v. Hackett · 1 Utah 2d 175 - Taylor v. E. M. Royle Corp. · Browning v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. · 8 Utah 2d 226 - Page v. Federal Security Insurance Company
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'What [a party is] entitled to is notice of the issues raised and an opportunity to meet them. When this is accomplished, that is all that is required.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is fundamental that where parties have rights under an existing contract they have exactly the same power to renegotiate terms or waive such rights as they had to make the contract in the first place.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“every final judgment shall grant the relief to which the party in whose favor it is rendered is entitled, even if the party had not demanded such relief in his pleadings.”
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.