Knight v. Chicago Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Sirtex Oil Industries, Inc. v. Erigan (1966), Fox v. Thoreson (1966)
15 federal appellate · 70 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 Grubb v. McAfee · Decker v. Kirlicks · Carson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Whitworth v. McKee · Stafford v. Wessel
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Petitioners complain of the form of this judgment. We cannot perceive how they have been injured thereby. By their pleadings they put in issue only the title to the 7/8 leasehold interest conveyed by them in the lease charged with the oil payment in their favor. The decree that they take nothing merely vests in the lessee and those holding valid interests under it that particular leasehold estate. Petitioners' right to the oil payment and royalties have not been impaired by the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The^ word 'provided’ in common speech naturally expresses a qualification, limitation, condition, or an exception respecting the scope and operation of words previously used. ‘Although a proviso in statutes, contracts or wills not infrequently introduces new or independent matter, its true office and its general purpose is to restrict the sense or make clear the meaning of that which has gone before.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.