Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Yost v. Yost (1895), Snider v. Snider (1913)
33 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 Burnside v. Ennis · Hedrick v. Hedrick · Courtney v. Courtney · Chicago & Indianapolis Air Line Railway Co. v. Johnston
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . This provision of the statute invests the court with discretionary powers in an action for a divorce in making interlocutory orders during the pendency of the action against the husband in favor of the wife for a temporary allowance of what is generally denominated in law as ‘suit money.’ . . .” (Our italics.)”
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.