Knickerbocker v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1927
4 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 Carson River Lumbering Co. v. Bassett
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Because, under our practice, the pleadings are to be liberally construed, with a view to substantial justice between the parties, it does not follow that the substantial rules of pleading can be disregarded and that every hotch-potch of inconsistent facts indorsed ‘complaint,’ or ‘answer,’ is to be deemed a sufficient pleading.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Walser v. Moran
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.