Davis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1976 · most notably Ball v. Halsell (1896), Noble v. Mead-Morrison Manufacturing Co. (1921)
5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not undertake to declare void any contracts theretofore made between the representative of. the State and an agent or attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ball v. Halsell
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.