Knickerbocker v. Scranton’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1986
3 federal appellate · 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 Harris (Et Ux.) v. Lewistown Tr. Co. · Appel v. Muller · Maloy v. Rosenbaum Co. · Lombardo v. Barilla · Lindstrom v. Pennsylvania Co.
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.
“We have had occasion to consider the respective duties and responsibilities of owners and lessees where the complainants sought to recover for injuries occurring inside the premises to those who were at the time there by permission or license from the tenants: Harris v. Lewistown Tr. Co., 326 Pa. 145, 191 A. 34; but there is a difference in status between persons inside the premises and persons outside the premises. The rules applicable are not the same and the theories supporting the rules are different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larson v. Straff““[h]ere plaintiff was injured outside the premises as affected by the reservation of the right to enter and make repairs. The injury was occasioned by a defect in the sidewalk abutting on the premises and set aside for the use of the public. A defect such as formed the basis of recovery here affected persons who, as part of the public, used the sidewalk and not those who entered the premises- by virtue of any right created between lesser and lessee.””
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.