Holmes v. Davis, Dir. Gen.’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
March 1954
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Looney v. Metropolitan Railroad · Hall v. Northwestern R. R. · Steele v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R. · Bennett v. Southern Railway
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this, under the authorities cited, is not sufficient to carry the case to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnwell v. ELLIOTT
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.