Davidson v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1975 · most notably Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory (1944), State v. Kartus (1935)
25 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · State ex rel. Meyer v. Greene · Board of Commissioners v. Orr. · Miller v. Jones · Lowe v. Reed
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the exercise of the police power of the state, there is left to the lawmaking power a wide latitude of discretion, and we are not persuaded the Legislature has overstepped the bounds in the enactment of this law. We conclude in favor of its validity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State
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.