Davis & Son v. Hurt’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 1967 · most notably Lewis v. Ebersole (1943), First Nat. Bank v. Morgan (1925)
35 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 Claflin v. . Meyer · Bolling v. Kirby & Brother · Magnin v. . Dinsmore · Ala. & Tenn. Rivers Railroad v. Kidd · Conner & Johnson v. Allen & Reynolds
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the bailee to whose. possession, control, and care goods are intrusted will not account for the failure or refusal to deliver them on demand of the bailor, the presumption is not violent that he has been wanting in diligence, or that he may have wrongfully converted, or may wrongfully detain them.” Davis v. Hurt, 114 Ala. 146 , 21 South. 468 .”
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.