Knox County v. Harshman’s Empirical Analysis
133 U.S. 152 · 1890
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 7 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1956 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), Marshall v. Holmes (1891)
48 federal appellate · 7 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Phillips v. Negley · The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Hodgson · Ambler v. Choteau · Thompson v. United States
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of equity does not interfere with judgments at law unless the ■complainant has an equitable defense of which he could not avail himself at law, or had a good defense at law which he was prevented from availing himself of by fraud or accident, unmixed with negligence of himself or his agent.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““If that return were false, yet, no fraud being charged or proved against the petitioner, redress can be sought at law only, and not by this bill.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Davis
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.