Britt v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2008
15 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 State ex rel. Braley v. Gay · O'Reiley v. . People of the State of New York · McCain v. Bonner · Matthews v. Reid · Carlisle v. Gunn
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law has not prescribed any exact formula of words or specific ceremony which must be used in order to constitute a valid administration of an oath. Certain forms of expression are generally followed. But if the substance is present, a lack of literal compliance with form will not invalidate the oath.”
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.