Knight v. Rower’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Delfino v. Griffo (2011), Sorge v. State (2000)
4 district · 29 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 22 Ill. 2d 23 - Cunningham v. Brown · Langle v. Kurkul · 105 Wash. 2d 457 - Dickinson v. Edwards · Alumni Ass'n v. Sullivan · CJW v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e will not recognize a new cause of action or enlarge an existing one without first determining whether there is a compelling public policy reason for the change.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.