Judd v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2025
9 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 · State v. Nielsen · Homer v. Smith · Varbel v. Varbel · Big Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Co. v. Moyle
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o attain legal recognition of a prescriptive easement in Utah, the claimant must prove by clear and convincing evidence that the claimant's 'use of another's land was open, continuous, and adverse under a claim of right for a period of twenty years.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Judd v. Bowen“the type of highly fact-dependent question, with numerous potential fact patterns, which accords the trial judge a broad measure of discretion when applying the correct legal standard to the given set of facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Judd v. Bowen“more closely resembles the sort of rights typically associated with adverse possession rather than the more limited easement rights acquirable by prescription.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Judd v. Bowen
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.