Davis v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1985
15 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 Coggins v. Ely · People v. Bank of San Luis Obispo · Finlen v. Heinze · O'Donnell v. Sixth Judicial District Court · 49 Tex. Civ. App. 292 - Merrill v. Savage
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ .. . The statute makes no provision as to the mode by which that question shall be tried on the appeal, and therefore the rules of practice and procedure which prevail in ordinary actions at law must be the guide. Elliott, Roads and Streets (2d Ed.) par. 362. The reasonable presumption is that when the Legislature gave the right of appeal, and made no provision for the procedure thereon, it meant that the practice in ordinary actions and proceedings in the circuit court should apply. The cause on appeal must be tried as an ordinary action at law, without formal pleadings, however, and must necessarily result in a judgment either for or against the appellant.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duncan v. Mack
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.