Ford v. . Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1994 · most notably Waialua Agricultural Co. v. Christian (1938), Lynch v. Union Institution for Savings (1893)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Scott v. . Guernsey · 5 Johns. Ch. 388 - Van Horne v. Fonda · Hewlett v. . Wood · Taylor v. Baldwin · St. Felix v. Rankin
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determined upon its own facts and surroundings, and those may occur in which such an allowance would be unjust and inequitable. The opinion in Scott v. Guernsey points out that in the cases decided in this State there was some peculiar circumstance out of which the equity arose beyond”
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.