Knighton v. Curry’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 1971 · most notably York Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. v. Chrysler Credit Corp. (1971), Shaddix v. National Surety Co. (1930)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Hayes v. Ward · Cheesebrough v. Millard · Donald & Co. v. Hewitt · Foster v. Trustees of the Athenæum · Ohio Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Ledyard
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.
““We had occasion to consider and pass upon this statutory provision in Dallas County v. Timberlake, 54 Ala. 403 , and we held the lien it creates is not like that of a judgment or execution of a court of law, a mere legislative remedy, or the mere incident of a judgment, created by legislation, ‘but a tax collector’s bond being a contract, by which the law has previously declared liens shall be created, its liens are liens by contract, on the part of the persons who execute the bond, as much as that of a mortgage would be. Such lien is intended, also, to be a security quite as effectual for the benefit of the state and county, from the time the lien operates, as a mortgage would be to a mortgagee, with this difference, that it would not, as a mortgage might, give a right of action at law, but can be carried into effect, as'a specific lien, in a court of equity only.’ ” Knighton v. Curry, 62 Ala. 404, 407 ; Dallas County v. Timberlake, 54 Ala. 403, 412 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roebuck v. Roberts
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.