Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2000
4 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first such issue is whether she is entitled to modification of the June, 1984, order fixing the support arrearage and prescribing the manner in which it will be paid. As noted above, [Mrs. Davis] contends that she was unaware of her entitlement to interest on each monthly support obligation as it matured and went unpaid. However, all such obligations, and any interest that might have accrued thereon, were merged into the magistrate’s order adjudicating the amount of the delinquency in June 1984, and prescribing the manner in which it would be paid. The order was based primarily upon a stipulation of the parties, resolving their dispute over the existence and amount of the arrearage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.