Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2011
14 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 Robbins v. Robbins
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Charges and countercharges were freely made by the witnesses for each,side. In such a situation the chancellor, having seen the parties and the witnesses as they testified, is in an immeasurably better position to decide the issues than are the members of this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harmon v. Harmon
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.