Lewis v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2025
13 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 20 Utah 2d 325 - Davis v. Riley · 13 Utah 2d 290 - Tangaro v. Marrero · 1 Utah 2d 313 - Mitchell v. Spanish Fork West Field Irrigation Co. · Kirkham v. Spencer · Tuft v. Brotherson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to reopen to take additional testimony when a case has been submitted to the court, but prior to the entry of judgment, is addressed to the sound discretion of the [trial] court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A court should consider a motion to reopen to take additional testimony in light of all the circumstances and grant or deny it in the interest of fairness and substantial justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any objection to a defect of parties is waived, if not asserted by a party as provided in Rule 12(h). ...”
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.