Knapp v. Guerin’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Martel v. Hunt (1940), Sans Souci v. DIVISION OF FLORIDA LAND, ETC. (1982)
2 district · 33 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 Viterbo v. Friedlander · Pierce v. Hedden · Jacobs v. Calderwood · 23 La. Ann. 44 - Austin, Thorpe & Co. v. Da Rocha, Becker & Co. · 13 La. Ann. 238 - Choppin v. Gobbold
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere indication made by a debtor of a person who is to pay in his place does not operate a novation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The delegation, by which the debtor gives to the creditor another debtor who obliges himself toward such creditor, does not operate a novation, unless the creditor has expressly declared that he intends to discharge his debtor who has made the delegation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Novation is a contract, consisting of two stipulations; one to extinguish an existing obligation, the other to substitute a new one in its place.”
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.