Davis v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2003
7 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 McGuire v. City of Dallas · McGuire v. City of Dallas · Anderson v. Polk · WM. Cameron & Co. v. American Surety Co. of New York · 67 Cal. App. 2d 257 - Cordell v. City of Los Angeles
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of the legislation creating a pension plan is to be subserved by a broad and liberal construction of the act, and may not be defeated by a narrow and technical construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * Article 1269m Section 10 [, R.C.S.] provides as follows: ‘When a vacancy occurs in the * * * Police Department * * * the Police Chief .* * * , shall request in writing from the Commission the names of suitable persons from the eligibility list, and the Director shall certify to the chief executive of said city, the names of three (3) persons having the highest grades on the eligibility list, and the said chief executive shall thereupon make an appointment from said three (3) names.’ * * * “It is apparent from this statute that the power to appoint members of the Police Department is vested in the chief executive of the city, who is the mayor. The Civil Service Commission is required to certify to the mayor the names of those who are eligible * * * but it does not have the power to make the appointment. * * * ””
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.