Knott v. McDonald's Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.3d 1065 · 1998
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2024
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 50 Cal. 3d 1118 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Bear Stearns & Co. · 11 Cal. 4th 376 - Della Penna v. Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. · Gulfstream III Associates Inc IV v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation 91-5932 III IV 91-5965 · 45 Cal. App. 4th 579 - PMC, Inc. v. Saban Entertainment, Inc. · Martino v. McDonald's System, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the intent of the parties to an [ambiguous] assignment is a question of fact to be derived not only from the instrument executed by the parties, but also from the surrounding circumstances”
2 later decisions 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.