Davis v. Pryor’s Empirical Analysis
112 F. 274 · 1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1971
2 federal appellate · 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 Meister v. Moore · Kelley v. Riley · Blodgett v. Perry · Commonwealth v. Stump · Haviland v. . Halstead
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We fully recognize the just and well-settled rule of law by which a man, even though married, and for that reason incapacitated from executing a contract or promise of marriage to another, shall not escape liability for damages occasioned to a third party, if in xioiut of fact, she entered into the contract with him in ignorance of the fact that he had a living wife” — Citing Kelley v. Riley, supra, and Bishop, Mar., Div. & Sep. § 192.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Rinker
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.