Knapp v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably LP v. Natrona County Department of Public Assistance & Social Services (1984), Manka v. Martin (1980)
24 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A litigant has a right to act as his own attorney, Gray v. Justice’s Court, 18 Cal.App.2d 420 , 63 P.2d 1160 , ‘but, in so doing, should be restricted to the same rules of evidence and procedure as is required of those qualified to practice law before our courts; otherwise, ignorance is unjustly rewarded.’ Knapp v. Fleming, 127 Colo. 414 , 258 P.2d 489 ; Monastero v. Los Angeles Transit Co., 131 Cal.App.2d 156, 160-161 , 280 P.2d 187 .” 289 P.2d at 824 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“derogatory remarks concerning the trial judge”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Essrig
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.