Davis v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2023
14 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 Suydam v. Williamson · Carter Oil Co. v. Independent Torpedo Co. · Jansen v. City of Atchison · Nance v. Oklahoma Fire Ins. Co. · Shawnee Light & Power Co. v. Sears
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The practice of demurring to the evidence in cases tried to the court without a jury appears to be an anomalous procedure followed only by the courts of Kansas”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Properly speaking, there is no such practice as that of demurring to the testimony in an equity case”
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.