Davie v. Padgett’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1976
17 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 Collins v. Mack · Burke v. Shaver · Bozeman v. Browning · Trapnall's adx. v. State Bank
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The facts of this case did not however, call for the submission to the jury of that issue, for there is no testimony which would have justified the jury in reaching the conclusion that the alleged promise of marriage was made by defendant in consideration of plaintiff granting him the privilege of sexual intercourse with her. . . . According to the plaintiff’s testimony, there was an unconditional promise of marriage, and, on the other hand, the defendant testified that there was no promise at all, therefore, there was no issue as to there being a conditional promise or one based upon the consideration of sexual intercourse. The instruction therefore submitted a matter foreign to the. issues, and was properly refused by the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. Connors
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.