Davenport v. Stratton’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 14 Cal. 3d 502 - Davies v. Krasna (1975), 6 Cal. 3d 361 - Solgaard v. Guy F. Atkinson Co. (1971)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 139 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 20 Cal. 2d 751 - Universal Sales Corp. v. California Press Manufacturing Co. · 2 E.H. Smith 241 - Smith v. . Molleson · Rudd v. Byrnes · Lee v. DeForest · Tillson v. Peters
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The rule as to the proper plea of the statute of limitations is not self-operating but depends for its enforcement on the diligence of the plaintiff in objecting to the insufficiency of the plea either by demurrer to the answer or by timely objection at the trial. ’ ’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Even though an instruction is couched in proper language it is improper, if it finds no support in the evidence, and the giving of it constitutes prejudicial error if it is calculated to mislead the jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... (giving the number of the section and subdivision thereof, if it is so divided, relied upon) ...”
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.