Davis v. Strauss’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2004
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question to be determined is whether the word ‘issue’ was used by Rebecca C. Davis, the grantor, in its technical sense as a word of limitation. If so, then James J. Davis took, under the rule in Shelley s case, a fee conditional estate which, upon the birth of issue ripened into a fee simple absolute for the purposes of alienation, forfeiture, or to charge. This is the contention of the respondents, and we think their position is sustained by the case of Antley v. Antley, 132 S. C. 306, 128 S. E. 31, 32 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Hanna
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.