Davis v. Hargett’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably 109 Ill. 2d 41 - Richardson v. Economy Fire & Casualty Co. (1985), Exotics Hawaii-Kona, Inc. v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. (2007)
6 federal appellate · 25 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 Hutchins v. Davis · Presnell v. . Liner · Modlin v. Roanoke Railroad & Navigation Co. · MacHine Co. v. Owings. · Butler v. Armour Fertilizer Works
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his original cause of action was property, wrongfully taken from him by the defendants, and that in this situation he had the legal right to elect as between two remedies, that is, (1) to rescind the compromise settlement and prosecute his original cause of action, or (2) to affirm the compromise settlement and recover damages from defendants for the difference in value between the true worth of his original cause of action and the consideration actually received by him in the settlement.”
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.