Knight v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1997
13 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 Cowin v. Salmon · Formby v. Williams · Manning v. Pippen · Jones v. Jones · Wagar v. Marshburn
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the possession * * * could be accounted for just as well by some other right or title actually existing in the vendee's favor, or by some relation between him and the vendor other than the alleged oral contract, it is not such a possession as the doctrine requires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“our decisions are to the effect that possession must be of a notorious and exclusive character to bring the case within the exception of the Statute [of Frauds].”
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.