Nottingham v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1995
9 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 Goodrum v. Ayers · Thomason v. Abbott · Spikes v. Hibbard · Weaver v. Gilbert · Winkle v. School Dist. No. 81, Independence Cty.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Conceding that the plaintiff was not in possession of the land, and for that reason could not maintain a suit to quiet title, it cannot avail the appellant; for he filed a cross-bill seeking to quiet his own title, and it gave the court jurisdiction of the entire controversy. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spears v. Rich
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.