Davis v. Whatley’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2004
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Young v. Glynn · Russ v. Union Oil Co. · Commercial Nat. Bank v. Smith · Beck v. Continental Casualty Co. · Ackerman v. McShane
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Article 3078 of the Civil Code provides that a compromise or transaction has, between the interested parties, a force equal to the authority of the thing adjudged. Such a compromise cannot be attacked on account of error of law or for any lesion. But such a compromise or transaction, under article 3079, may be rescinded whenever there exists an error in the person or on the matter in dispute."”
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.