Knight v. Denman’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1994
16 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Color of title is a strong evidence in such cases that the acts are those of an owner. One enters upon land under color of title, intending to assert such title. He uses it because he believes himself owner and entitled to use it as such. Not so one who has no title or claim of right or title whatsoever. He may entertain a purpose of occupying as owner and appropriating the property or he may merely intend to trespass from time to time so long as the owner makes no objection.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuh v. Flynn
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.