Ex Parte Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Brittain v. Jenkins (1955), Morton v. National Bank (1954)
26 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 Ex Parte Weissinger · Caheen v. Caheen · Bragg v. State
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was held in Ex parte Weissinger, 247 Ala. 113 , 22 So.2d 510 , that mandamus may be employed to vacate a decree denying a plea in abatement in a divorce case because of the public interest in such cases.””
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.