Davis v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1969
22 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 White v. Berry · Walton v. House of Representatives of Oklahoma · Wheat v. Smith · Walls v. Brundidge · Gladish v. Lovewell
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While injunctions have been granted to prevent the improper removal of an officer where there was no doubt as to the illegality of the action and where the removal had not already taken place but was threatened, the general rule, in the absence of statute providing, otherwise, is that equity lias no jurisdiction to enjoin the appointment or removal of public officers, whether the power of appointment or removal is vested in executive or administrative boards * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rockefeller v. Hogue““It is well settled that courts of equity will not interfere by injunction, to determine questions concerning the appointment or election of public officers, or their title to office; and it does not matter whether the incumbent is an officer de jure or de facto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seabolt v. Moses
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.