Davis v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Singh v. Mooney (2001), Super Fresh Food Markets of Virginia, Inc. v. Ruffin (2002)
76 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 School Board v. Caudill Rowlett Scott, Inc. · Raymond Thomas Council v. Commonwealth · Cunningham v. Smith · State Highway Commissioner v. Easley · McEwen Lumber Co. v. Lipscomb Bros. Lumber Co.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen acting nunc pro tunc, the court does not reacquire jurisdiction over the case. Rather, the trial court merely corrects the record by entry of an order nunc pro tunc, under the accepted fiction that the order relates back to the date of the original action of the court “now for then.” Nonetheless, we have carefully noted that the power to amend should not be confounded with the power to create. While the power is inherent in the court, it is restricted to placing upon the record evidence of judicial action which has actually been taken, and presupposes action taken at the proper time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[n]either the filing of post-trial or post-judgment motions, nor the court’s taking such motions under consideration, nor the pendency of such motions on the twenty-first day after final judgment, is sufficient to toll or extend the running of the 21-day period prescribed by Rule 1:1 .... The running of time under [Rule 1:1] may be interrupted only by the entry, within the 21-day period after final judgment, of an order suspending or vacating the final order.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]lerical mistakes in all judgments or other parts of the record.”
2 later decisions 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.