Davis v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1963
16 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 O'Neal v. Minary · Nall v. Tinsley · Colvin v. Finch
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A petition is but a formal written request or prayer for a certain thing to be done. He who signs it must do- so voluntarily; otherwise he cannot be in the attitude of making a request. The signature of the petitioner is but evidence of the request or prayer. In the absence of anything to thé contrary, the signature is conclusive. But when the signer appears in court and asks that his name be withdrawn, he indicates that he is no longer a petitioner.””
2 later decisions 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.