Knight v. Auciello’s Empirical Analysis
453 F.2d 852 · 1972
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society (1975), Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond (1974)
56 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Sobell v. Attorney General · Lee v. Southern Home Sites Corp. · Springfield School Committee v. Barksdale
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The violation of an important public policy may involve little by way of actual damages, so far as a single individual is concerned, or little in comparison with the cost of vindication, as the case at bar illustrates. If a defendant may feel that the cost of litigation, and, particularly, that the financial circumstances of an injured party may mean that the chances of suit being brought, or continued in the face of opposition, will be small, there will be little brake upon deliberate wrongdoing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from the shoulders of the plaintiff seeking to vindicate the public right.”
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.