United States v. Knauer’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 519 · 1945
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Knauer v. United States (1946), King v. General Electric Co. (1992)
14 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Baumgartner v. United States · United States v. Kusche · 47 F. Supp. 622 - United States v. Baumgartner · United States v. Schuchhardt · 45 F. Supp. 407 - United States v. Mobley
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The court should not consolidate the trial, even where the court sits as a chancellor, in cases where the issues affecting various defendants are certain to lead to confusion or prejudice to any one or all of the defendants.’ ””
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.