Knotts v. Stearns’s Empirical Analysis
91 U.S. 638 · 1875
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010
6 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 Horn v. Lockhart
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The posthumous child did not possess, until born, any estate in the real property of which his father died seised whieli could affect the power of the court to convey the property into a personal fund, if the interest of the children then in being, or the enjoyment of the dower right of the widow, required such conversion. Whatever estate devolved upon him at his birth was an estate in the property in its then condition. That property had then ceased to he realty. It had become by 1hc sale converted into personalty. All that was then required for the protection of his interest In it was the appointment of a guardian to take possession of his proportion, and such a-proceeding was had. A guardian was appended, and upon a supplemental hill the original decree was so far modified as to provide for the child having an equal interest in the fund obtained with the other children.””
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.