Davis v. . Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently May 1970 · most notably Vanadium Corp. v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland (1947), Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias v. Henrietta Meyer (1905)
10 federal appellate · 68 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDavis v. Supreme Lodge
Relationships
Relies on McGahey v. State of Virginia · Coleman v. Tennessee · B.L., T. S.D. Co. v. . K.T. M.M.A. Assn. · Renihan v. . Dennin · Grattan v. . Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By reasonable construction it excludes a physician from giving testimony in a judicial proceeding in any form, whether by affidavit or oral examination, involving a disclosure of confidential information acquired in attending a patient, unless the seal of secrecy is removed by the patient himself.””
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.