Knight v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1995
1 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 14 (§ 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Standard Oil Co. of California v. United States · Pick Mfg Co v. General Motors Corporation · Business Men's Assur. Co. of America v. Eades · Fowler's Bootery v. Selby Shoe Co. · Ladd v. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Restrictions imposed in a deed on the use of real estate are valid and binding providing such restrictions are reasonable and limited as to territory and duration. Ladd v. Pittsburg Consolidation Coal Co., 309 Ky. 405 , 217 S.W.2d 807 ; Prosper v. Shoemaker 312 Ky. 344 , 227 S.W.2d 176 .”
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.