Davock v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 1959 · most notably Standard Chemical & Oil Co. v. City of Troy (1917), City of Birmingham v. Hood-Mcpherson Realty Co. (1937)
24 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Beer Company v. Massachusetts · People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · People ex rel. Le Roy v. Hurlbut · People ex rel. Board of Park Commissioners v. Common Council · Youngblood v. Sexton
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the extent and boundaries of the police power, and however difficult it may be to render a satisfactory definition of it, there seems to be no doubt that it does extend to the protection of the lives, health, and property of the citizens, and to the preservation of good order and public morals. They belong emphatically to that class of objects which demand the application of the maxim, `Salus populi Suprema lex' ; and they are to be attained and provided for by such appropriate means as the legislature may devise."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For those classes of officers whose duties are general, such as the judges, the officers of militia, the superintendents of police, of quarantine, and of ports, by whatever name called, provision has, to a greater or less extent, been made by State appointment. But these are more properly State than local officers; they perform duties for the State in localities, as collectors of internal revenue do for the general government; and a local authority for their appointment does not make them local officers, when the nature of their duties is essentially general. * * * The municipality, as an agent of government, is one thing; the corporation, as an owner of property, is in some particulars to be regarded in a very different light.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It appears that the bill was introduced on the fiftieth day, and therefore within the time limited by this clause of the Constitution. ””
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.