Davis v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 1982
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Davidson v. Whitehill · Rutter v. Burke · Burton v. Selectmen, Town of Springfield · Jackvony v. Berard · Boutwell v. Champlain Realty Co.
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.
“"By virtue of 24 V.S.A. section 4007, the Burlington Housing Authority is, of itself, a public body, corporate and politic, not a department of the City of Burlington, It has, independently a power of eminent domain. 24 V.S.A. section, 4001. As 24 V.S.A. sections, 4018, 4020 and 4021 variously indicate, it is authorized, as a separate entity, to contract with the city, or other municipalities, or the state or the federal government."”
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.