Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Scott v. Scott (1954), N.E. v. L. H. (2000)
33 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 Urbach v. Urbach · Walker v. Walker · Power v. Power · Bank of Mississippi v. Duncan · Bell v. City of West Point
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This statute did not restrict but rather enlarged the jurisdiction of the chancery court. * * * “That the equity powers thus recognized and established [by the state constitution] include the jurisdiction over infants, including the right and duty to protect their interests and welfare by decreeing their custody, should not be questioned.” (Citations.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Levis“[t]he legislature may add new equity powers to those established by the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.