Davidson v. Poli’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Jo-Mark Sand & Gravel Co. v. Pantanella (1953), Webb v. Ambler (1939)
32 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 Du Bouchet v. Wharton
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.
“the action [of summary process] is limited to cases where the issue of the expiration of the lease presents itself as a simple issue of fact, not complicated by questions as to the proper legal construction of the lease.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“submit[ting] the title to real estate to the decision of a justice of the peace.”
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.