Knox v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1997
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.
Relationships
Relies on Earp v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. · Howard v. Manning · Moody v. Wagner · Hawkins v. Klein · Utilities Production Corp. v. Riddle
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All persons having an interest in the subject and in obtaining the relief demanded may be joined as plaintiffs, except as otherwise' provided in this Article; provided that no joint tenant or tenant in common of real estate. or an interest therein, shall be barred from prosecuting an action to cancel an oil and gas lease covering the land' or interest therein for breach of implied or written covenant of said lease because of the failure of any other joint tenant or tenant in common to join in any notice or demand in said action to cancel said lease/ provided that all joint tenants or tenants in common are made parties to said action either as plaintiffs or defendants.””
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.