Jensen v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2021
21 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. · Stanley v. Stanley · 14 Utah 2d 36 - Metropolitan Investment Company v. Sine · Zollinger v. Frank · 17 Utah 2d 356 - Richins v. Struhs
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An easement by prescription arises under our common law from a use of the servient estate that is 'open, notorious, adverse, and continuous for a period of 20 years.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Judd v. Bowen“we reverse only when the evidence clearly preponderates against the findings of the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“we reverse only when the trial court's finding is against the clear weight of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Martin v. Scholl
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.