Davis v. Kendall’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Island Express, Inc. v. Frederick (1934), Holzbach v. United Virginia Bank (1975)
26 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 Roberts v. Lewis · Conrad v. Conrad's · Rubey v. Barnett · Farish v. Wayman · Dunning v. Vandusen
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] power of appointment is not an absolute right of property, nor is it an estate, for it has none of the elements of an estate . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Powers are to be construed in accordance with the intention of the donor. . . .'”
1 later decision 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.