Cowley v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2025
10 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 Valcarce v. Fitzgerald · 14 Utah 2d 205 - Cheney v. Rucker · Armed Forces Insurance Exchange v. Harrison · Behrens v. Raleigh Hills Hospital, Inc. · Spears v. Warr
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] challenge to the findmgs of fact must show that the ev1dence, Vlewed in a light most favorable to the trial court, is legally insufficient to support the éontested finding. The challenging party must marshal all the supporting evidence and demonstrate its insufficiency.”
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“A pleading which sets forth a claim for relief ... shall contain ... a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief....”
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.