Davis v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1979
10 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 Leddon v. Strickland · Tharp v. Johnson · Cox v. McLemore · Strickland v. Hinson · Thompson v. Miller
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The grounds and only grounds given to `the other heirs' by the statute on which they may contest the exemptioner's right to have the homestead `so set apart,' is that it exceeded in area one hundred and sixty acres, and in value $2,000 and was not all the real estate owned by such decedent at his death. . . ."”
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.