Knight v. Haley’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably Pan American Petroleum Corporation v. Superior Court of Delaware in and for New Castle County Texaco Inc (1961), Husband, C. v. Wife, C. (1974)
38 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 In Re Rice December 17 1894 · Willis v. Eastern Trust & Banking Co. · Connecticut River Railroad v. County Commissioners · Clendaniel v. Conrad · Francis v. West Virginia Oil 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the inferior court has jurisdiction of the person and subject matter, prohibition does not lie to prevent an erroneous decision, 50 C.J. 678; nor can it be assumed that any tribunal will act in a matter over which it has no jurisdiction, and until it does some act, as, when, upon challenge to its jurisdiction having been made, it overrules the objection, or otherwise expressly or by necessary implication announces its purpose to proceed, prohibition will not lie.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.