Knutson v. Knutson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Ebertz v. Ebertz (2005), In Re Adoption of AFM (2001)
27 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 Sea Lion Corp. v. Air Logistics of Alaska, Inc. · Parker v. Northern Mixing Co. · 69 Ohio App. 3d 225 - Bond v. Bond · Lowe v. Lowe · Wood v. Collins
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is the function of the trial court, not of this court, to judge witnesses' credibility and to weigh conflicting evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he goal ... is to give effect to the reasonable expectations of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCarter v. McCarter · Cook v. Cook“relevant extrinsic evidence, and case law interpreting similar provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCarter v. McCarter
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.