17 Utah 2d 356 - Richins v. Struhs’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Valcarce v. Fitzgerald (1998), Homer v. Smith (1993)
29 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 6 Utah 2d 177 - Nokes v. Continental Mining & Milling Co. · Zollinger v. Frank · Lunt v. Kitchens · Buckley v. COX · 10 Utah 2d 16 - Cassity v. Castagno
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the use is in fact adverse and appears to be so, that is all that is required. Even though it is sometimes referred to as a hostile use, it is not necessary that there be any open hostility manifest in the use of force or any overt physical or verbal opposition if the condition just stated is met.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“profve] that the use was initially permissive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n order for the use to have been permissive it would have to appear that the parties understood that the driveway was upon the Whipple’s (defendant’s predecessor’s) property; that it was with this understanding that they gave their consent to its use; and similarly that the Joneses (plaintiffs’ predecessors) so understood and accepted and used it.' No such view of the facts is warranted by the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Stansfield
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.