Davis v. Biggs’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1976
7 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 Freeman v. McAninch · Moore v. Snowball · Davis v. Davis · Nichols v. Dibrell · Merle v. Andrews
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.
“"... we think, the rule originally laid down in Foster v. Wells, 4 Tex. 101 , 104, reannounced in Nichols v. Dibrell, 61 Tex. 539, 541 , Freeman v. McAninch, 87 Tex. 132 , 27 S.W. 97 , 47 Am.St.Rep. 79 , Moore v. Snowball [ 98 Tex. 16 , 81 S.W. 5 ], supra, and thereafter frequently reiterated, applies in the instant case. That is, that a judgment `is not only final as to the matter actually determined, but as to every other matter which the parties might litigate in the cause, and which they might have had decided.'"”
2 later decisions 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.