Davis v. Ingersoll’s Empirical Analysis
1846
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1931
4 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 People ex rel. Kline v. Rickert
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The complaint should contain the same substantive allegations that would be requisite in an indictment predicated upon the same statute; and the complainant should be held to the same proof, substantially, that would be necessary to justify a conviction upon an indictment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Christian v. Amster
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.