2008 UT App 192 - Lunt v. Lance’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2025
19 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 State v. Holgate · Valcarce v. Fitzgerald · Pratt v. Nelson · Brookside Mobile Home Park, Ltd. v. Peebles · Tschaggeny v. Milbank Insurance Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Determining whether a trial judge committed error by failing to recuse himself ... is a question of law, and we review such questions for correctness.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[WJhile the conclusion that a prescriptive easement exists is a question of law, it is so fact-dependent that trial courts are generally accorded "a broad measure of discretion when applying the correct legal standard to the given set of facts" and are only overturned if the trial court's decision was in excess of this broad discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial court interpreted the twenty-plus years of adverse use by the Lances, without objection from Lunt and coupled with non-use by Lunt, as evidence of Lunt's intent to abandon the easement west of the gate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jacob v. Bate
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.