Knapp v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2025
9 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 Mitchell v. . Reed · Mitchell v. . Read · Dawson v. Dawson · Gies v. Storz Brewing 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is said to be a universal rule that no one who is in possession of a lease, or a particular interest in a lease, which is affected with any sort of' an equity in behalf of third persons, can renew the same for his own use only, but such renewal must be considered as a graft upon the old stock.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nicolai v. Desilets
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.