State v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1993
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Tyler v. Beto · Chapman v. State · State Ex Rel. Dinneen v. Tahash · State Ex Rel. Gray v. Tahash · State v. Harding
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the night of October 11, 1967, at Brookdale Shopping Center . . . a check [was] given the Florsheim Shoe Shop”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knight v. Minnesota“took the alligator shoes the next day and knowing that she had obtained it by a bad check”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knight v. Minnesota“not the person who wrote the check or gave the check”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knight v. Minnesota
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.