Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2002
9 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 Steele v. Steele's Adm'r · Borden v. Jenks · Todd v. McFall · Lee v. Lee · Smith v. Mason's Ex'or
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Again, on page 977, we read: ‘When a widow accepts a legacy left her in lieu of her dower in the lands and all her rights as widow in the estate of her husband, she becomes in equity a creditor of the testator’s estate to the extent of such legacy, and devisees and specific legatees are alike liable to contribute to the payment of her claims.””
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.