Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 52 N.C. App. 444 - Overstreet v. Brookland, Inc. (1981), Hoyle v. Bagby (1961)
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 Williams v. . Williams · McNeill v. . McNeill · Lee v. . Ledbetter · In Re Will of Craven · Planters Bank & Trust Co. v. Yelverton
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.
“It is the general rule that an unfulfilled promise cannot be made the basis for an action for fraud. The rule, of course, is otherwise, where the promise is made fraudulently with no intention to carry it out, and such promise constitutes a misrepresentation of a material fact[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is a family relationship, not a fiduciary one, and such relationship does not raise a presumption of fraud or undue influence”
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.