Knapp v. Penfield’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably 18 Cal. 2d 33 - Imperial Ice Co. v. Rossier (1941), Felsen v. Sol Cafe Manufacturing Corp. (1969)
10 federal appellate · 13 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 Harris v. . Harris · Metcalf v. . Van Benthuysen
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]tated more generally, `[p]rocuring the breach of a contract in the exercise of equal or superior right is acting with just cause or excuse and is justification for what would otherwise be an actionable wrong.'”
3 later decisions 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.