Knight v. Heaton’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1987
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is every day’s practice to presume a dedication of land to the public use from an acquiescence of the owner in such use. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dugan v. Zurmuehlen
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.