Knopp v. Gutterman’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Lenz v. Coon Creek Watershed District (1967), Kahn v. Griffin (2005)
68 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 Great Northern Railway Company v. United States · McCourtie v. United States Steel Corp. · Mattson v. Flynn · Lappinen v. Union Ore Co. · Gleason v. Geary
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Actions or proceedings by an injured employee to determine or recover compensation, two years after the employer has made written report of the injury to the commissioner of the department of labor and industry, but not to exceed six years from the date of the accident.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Departmental practice in administration of statutes will control when the practice is reasonable * * *. When meaning of statute is doubtful, great weight is to be given by courts to construction placed upon it by department charged with its administration * * *. Administrative interpretation of statutes, although not binding upon the court, should receive consideration unless found to be erroneous and in conflict with express purposes of the act and intentions of the legislature * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all benefits provided by this chapter on account of injury or death.”
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.