Knox v. City of Granite Falls’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Faught Ex Rel. Faught v. Washam (1959), Slow Development Company v. Coulter (1960)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 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 Mohr v. Williams · Cameron v. Evans · Breeding's Dania Drug Co. v. Runyon · Gallagher v. United States · Moeller v. Hauser
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Notwithstanding the absence of passion or prejudice, trial courts should not hesitate to take appropriate action where the evidence does not justify the amount of a verdict, * * *.””
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.