Davis v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2024
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Seal v. Banes · Lehman v. Tucker · Montana Catholic Missions v. County of Lewis & Clark · Hein v. Wahl · Grattan v. Trego
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The property, both real and personal, of one who dies without disposing of it by will, passes to the heirs of the intestate, subject to the control of the county court, and to the possession of any administrator appointed by that court for the purpose of administration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cassina v. Jones“an heir in possession of real estate in which he owns an undivided interest may assert that the same constitutes his homestead even though the estate of the person from whom he inherited is in the process of administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“homestead rights may attach to any interest in real estate which constitutes the dwelling place of the family.”
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.