19 Cal. App. 518 - Knight v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 616 - Green v. Superior Court (1974), 3 Cal. 3d 507 - Schweiger v. Superior Court (1970)
76 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 Kew v. Trainor · Ralph v. Lomer · 2 Cal. App. 653 - Gray v. Maier & Zobelein Brewery · Schnittger v. Rose · Abrams v. Watson
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court granted plaintiff’s motion to strike out the essential parts of the quoted portion of the defendant’s answer, upon the theory, apparently, that a literal compliance with the condition of the lease, notwithstanding that its breach involved a forfeiture, was absolutely essential to the life of the lease and the estate granted thereunder, and that a substantial compliance with the condition could not be pleaded or considered as a valid defense to the action. “This, we think, was error, which subsequently and necessarily resulted in prejudice to the defendant by the exclusion of proffered testimony which would have been material and relevant to the issue presented by this defense. ’ ’”
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.