Davidson v. Witthaus’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1950
2 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 Terry v. Anderson · Turner v. People of State of New York · Wheeler v. Jackson · Matter of Estate of Prime · People v. . Turner
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature of 1892 could not fetter the legislature of 1901 (Cooley Const. Lim., 7th Ed., p. 174 et seq.), and I think that the statutory construction law is not an attempt at so vain a thing. This statute is a rule of construction, applicable when not'inconsistent with the general object of a subsequent statute, or the context of the language construed, or other provision of a repealing law indicating a different intent. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. People
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.