Solomon v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably 113 So. 2d 603 - In Re Kionka's Estate (1959), 387 So. 2d 960 - Killian v. Lawson (1980)
15 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 Johns v. Bowden · Bigelow Et Ux. v. Dunphe · 61 So. 2d 420 - Ripley v. Ewell · Pollack v. Pollack · DeCottes v. Clarkson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To constitute a `head of a family' there must be at least two persons who live together in the relation of one family, and one of them must be `the head' of that `family.' When the natural relation of husband and wife or parent and child, or that of being in loco parentis, does not exist, the relation should be one in which an established and continuing personal authority, responsibility, and obligation actually rests upon one as `the head of a family' for the welfare of the others who, in law, should, or, in fact, do, recognize and observe a family relation to the one as `the head of a family.'" (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions 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.