Davidson and Another v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 604 · 1827
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1935
4 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such a case the bail is considered as fixed by the return of the ca. sa., and his [the principal’s] death after-wards, and before the return of the scire facias, does not entitle the bail to an exoneretur.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To many purposes, the bail is considered as fixed by the return of the ca. sa.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as matter of favour, and not as matter pleadable in bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.