Davis v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Pettus v. Keeling (1987), Craig v. Kennedy (1961)
30 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 Williams v. Green · 62 W. Va. 223 - Walton v. Knight · Witt v. Creasey · Clark v. Reynolds · Kent v. Dobyns
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to object to the use of the way is very often stated by witnesses as consent to its use, yet such consent is mere acquiescence, and acquiescence is one of the elements upon which the ripening of the use into a legal right rests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blanks v. Pittard
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.