Rudolph v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2026
5 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 Davis v. Wilson · Rudolph v. Davis · Davis v. Wilson
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.
“In interpreting the statute in question (forcible entry and detainer) ... we must give it a liberal construction with a view to promote its object. The object ... is to enable a person entitled to possession of real estate to obtain such possession from any one illegally in the possession of same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bernet v. Rogers“The only question in a forcible entry and detainer action is whether the defendant is wrongfully detaining possession of the real property at the time of the trial.”
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.