Davis v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2025
6 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 West v. Housing Authority of City of Atlanta · Bryant v. Prior Tire Company · Payne v. Bradford · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc. v. Bell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he simple existence of an adverse effect on [A]ppellants is not in itself sufficient. Appellants must also show that it is the feature of the ... administrative action which they seek to attack that was the direct cause of the injury. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hitch v. Vasarhelyi
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.