Knost v. Knost’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1970
20 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 Williams v. Cowden · Waters v. Tazewell · Gaven v. Allen · Dumey v. Schœffler · Walsh v. Mathews
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The. restraint on marriage was total. It was not leveled at marriage to a given person or to a communicant of a given church, or limited to a certain age or to" a reasonable time. Any marriage' whatever, however appropriate, at any time however reasonable to any person however suitable, took from Anna Marie Louisa a part of the estate vested in her by the will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Hobson
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.