Knight v. Hackett’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 1957
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State Highway Commission v. American Mutual Liability Insurance · Stilwell v. Faith · Barzen v. Kepler · In re Rockwood · Waltmire v. Ford
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an action for damages growing out of an automobile collision, a petition which fails to state any specific facts showing negligence on the part of defendant where defendant’s motion to make definite and certain was resisted and overruled is subject to demurrer.” (Syl. HI.)”
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.