Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2003
16 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 LeSieur v. Spikes · Dempsey v. Davis · McGuire v. Cook · Grimes v. Jones · Field v. Tyner
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Terms such as bodily heirs, issue, etc., have long been defined in the law, and the definition does not include adopted children. (Citation omitted.) A foster child, being a stranger to the blood, is the antithesis of an heir of the body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sides v. Beene
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.