Kniffen v. . McConnell’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 1930 · most notably Cruikshank v. . Gordon (1890), Haymond v. Saucer (1882)
1 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 McKyring v. . Bull · Wells v. Padgett
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But in tlie latter case it is said this rule does not apply, in action for breach of promise of marriage, where the amount of the defendant’s property is material as going to show what should have been the station of the plaintiff in society if the promise had not been broken. Sedg. Dam. p. 544. His means might, have relieved her from labor, or placed her in a condition of comfort and independence which she would not have otherwise enjoyed. The objection in this case was not to the mode of proof, but to the admissibility of that kind of evidence. It may he objectionable to particularize the defendant's property, and such evidence should be confined to general reputation as to the circumstances of the defendant. To that extent I think it admissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Humphrey v. Brown
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.