Davis v. McCain’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Ober v. Williams (1948), Scott v. Apgar (1959)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Trichel v. Home Ins. · Pruyn v. Gay · Capo v. Bugdahl · Joffrion v. Gumbel · Campbell v. Richmond Ins.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constituting the agreement between the parties, show that the instruments are not translative of ownership, but that they evidence an intention to transfer title by a deed to be passed on a future day.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Bulkley“same being a part of the purchase price on Trilby Plantation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Bulkley
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.