Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2013
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Amos v. Coffey · Appalachian Power Co. v. Greater Lynchburg Transit Co. · Capps v. Capps · 8 Va. App. 12 - Davis v. Davis
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every gift, conveyance, assignment or transfer of . . . any estate, real or personal, . . . given with intent to delay, hinder or defraud creditors, purchasers or other persons of or from what they are or may be lawfully entitled to shall, as to such creditors, purchasers or other persons, their representatives or assigns, be void. This section shall not affect the title of a purchaser for valuable consideration, unless it appear that he had notice of the fraudulent intent of his immediate grantor or of the fraud rendering void the title of such grantor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Buchanan v. Buchanan“[c]lear and explicit language in a contract is to be taken in its ordinary signification, and, if the meaning is plain when so read, the instrument must be given effect accordingly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Where ... the intention of the parties has been stated plainly, a court may not fashion a different agreement for them under the guise of contract interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.