Long v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Swilley v. McCain (1964), Bocanegra v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. (1980)
11 federal appellate · 232 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 Knox v. Long · Permian Oil Co. v. Smith · Kahn v. Kahn · Hodge v. Ellis · Permian Oil Co. v. Smith
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(A) party is estopped merely by the fact of having alleged or admitted in his pleadings in a former proceeding under oath the contrary to the assertion sought to be made.' . . . (I)t is not necessary that the party invoking this doctrine have been a party to the former proceeding.”
18 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.