Knippel v. Northern Communications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Self v. United Parcel Service, Inc. (1998), Callaway v. New Mexico Department of Corrections (1994)
38 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 Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · Schiller v. Southwest Air Rangers, Inc. · 234 Cal. App. 2d 753 - Kunstman v. Mirizzi · Oschwald v. Christie · Bogle v. Potter
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To permit one who has knowledge of the law to attempt to negotiate a settlement and subsequently plead estoppel would not only destroy the effect of the legislative statutes of limitations but would seriously impair the climate and effectiveness of the present method of encouraging settlement without litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where matters outside the pleadings are considered on a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, the motion becomes one for summary judgment.”
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.