Knipfer v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 1962 · most notably 15 Wis. 2d 374 - McConville v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1962), Warner v. Markoe (1937)
1 federal appellate · 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 Allyn v. Boston & Albany Railroad · Sommerfield v. Flury · Lundergan v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad · Reiter v. Grober · Randolph v. O'Riordon
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all of those cases [cases ill which the guest assumed the risk] three elements were present which prevented recovery by a guest: (1) A hazard or danger inconsistent with the safety of the guest; (2) knowledge and appreciation of the hazard by the guest; and (3 ) acquiescence or a willingness to proceed in the face of the danger.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““May it be said, with reason and common sense, that a person may ride in a car for many miles under such conditions without fully assuming the risk of injury incident to such a trip? We think not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Monsos v. Euler
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.