Robinson v. Knowlton’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Files v. Hill (1980), Lafargue v. Waggoner (1934)
27 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 Taaffe v. Sanderson · Ferguson v. Montgomery · Hill v. Williams · Bland v. Benton · Cain v. Carllee
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since such contest is generally *Page 769 held, not to be a civil action, subject to rules of pleading in actions at law, but to be a special statutory proceeding, varying in its nature as well as in the sufficiency of the pleadings, according to the statutes of the different States, the same strict, technical accuracy in pleading is not usually required as in civil actions inter partes. 20 C.J., 235.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lafargue v. Waggoner“even after the time has expired, amend his complaint by making it more definite and certain as to any charge in his original complaint, and, if a motion to make it more specific is filed, it would be his duty to make the amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. Crumbly
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.