Knapp v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 district · 168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Strack v. Pelton (1994), Kelm v. Kelm (2001)
2 district · 168 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 Ackermann v. United States · McClain v. McClain · 1 Ohio App. 3d 80 - Ashley v. Ashley
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was designed to provide relief to those who have been prospectively subjected to circumstances which they had no opportunity to foresee or control.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“'requires that there be some end to every lawsuit, thus producing certainty in the law and public confidence in the system's ability to resolve disputes.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is no longer equitable that the judgment should have prospective application.”
8 later decisions 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.