State v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States (1932), Dasch v. Jackson (1936)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Dent v. State of West Virginia · Stearns v. State · State v. Broadbelt · Singer v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may. indeed, well be conceded that, where a word susceptible of more than one meaning is repeated in the same act or section of an act (either meaning being in each case open to reasonable adoption), a presumption arises, more or less forcible according to the circumstances, that it is used throughout in the same sense; hut Where the subject-matter to which the word refers is not the same in both clauses, or where the surrounding circumstances are different, this iiresnmption must yield to an adverse presumiition, furnished by an analysis of the various purposes of the law and of the language in which those purposes are expressed.””
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.