Pentecost v. Harward’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2025
1 district · 15 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 11 Utah 2d 289 - Samms v. Eccles · 10 Utah 2d 251 - Dupler v. Yates · 29 Utah 2d 274 - Walker v. Rocky Mountain Recreation Corporation · 3 Utah 2d 419 - King v. Firm · 9 Ariz. App. 103 - Kiser v. A. J. Bayless Markets, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Allegations that [her landlord] 'forcefully' evicted her and her children when she held the premises under lease and had tendered the rent due, that he retained all of her personal possessions without contractual or judicial sanction, and that all of this was done intentionally and with malice certainly would state ... a claim” for intentional infliction of emotional distress.); Samms v. Eccies, 11 Utah 2d 289 , 358 P.2d 344, 345, 347 (1961) (allegation that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Both [the forcible entry and detainer] statutes and the tort action derived from them require that unless a tenant plainly abandons the premises, a landlord must resort to judicial process if he wishes to be rid of a tenant in peaceable possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(al verified pleading, made under oath and meeting the requirements for affidavits established in Rule 56(e) of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure, can be the equivalent of an affidavit for purposes of a motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision 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.