Davis v. McCall’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2010
19 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 Kimball & Fink v. Friend's Adm' r · W. S. Forbes & Co. v. Southern Cotton Oil Co. · P. Lorillard Co. v. Clay · Washington & Old Dominion Railway Co. v. Zell's Administrator · Jacobs v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was a matter between the clerk and the commonwealth, and ... [that payment] was not such a necessary condition precedent to the issuing of the writ as to entitle the defendant to set it up in bar of the action”
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.