Davis v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2001
16 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 Maki v. Murray Hospital · Krohmer v. Dahl · Campeau v. Lewis · State Highway Commission v. Greenfield · Garrison v. Trowbridge
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As to the third item, loss of society, comfort, care and protection ... no extensive proof was made except that the son was a normal child. It is obvious that to put a monetary value on this is something solely within the province of the jury." 152 Mont. at p. 174 , 448 P.2d at p. 135 .”
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.