Knight v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 1980 · most notably Gibson v. Gaines (1916), 81 Ill. App. 3d 431 - Klingel v. Kehrer (1980)
1 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Maxwell Land Grant Co. v. Dawson · Ricard v. Williams · Roebke v. Andrews · James v. Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad · Sparrow v. Hovey
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The relation of grantor may be denied, by retaining actual possession and exercising acts of control and dominion over the property, consistent only with a claim of exclusive ownership and of adverse right, and hostile to the title of the grantee.” Knight v. Knight, 178 Ill. 558 , 53 N. E. 308 ; Harn v. Smith, 79 Tex. 310 , 15 S. W. 240 , 242, 23 Am. St. Rep. 340 ; Murray v. Hoyle, 92 Ala. 559 , 9 South. 368 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nicholson v. Deaver
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.