Knapp v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Sapp v. Warner (1932), Webb v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance (1904)
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Humphrey · Hastings v. Cutler · Mansfield v. Dyer
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a party has knowledge of such facts as would lead a fair and prudent man, using ordinary caution, to make further inquiries, and he avoids the inquiry, he is chargeable with notice of the facts which by ordinary diligence he would have ascertained. He has no right to shut his eyes against the light before him. He does a wrong not to heed the ‘signs and signals’ seen by him. It may be well concluded that he is avoiding notice of that which he in reality believes or knows. Actual notice of facts which, to the mind of a prudent man, indicate notice — is proof of notice.” (Emphasis supplemental)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Notice does not mean knowledge, — actual knowledge is not required.” (p. 202, 9 A. p. 123) 3”
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.