Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1974
23 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 223 Mo. App. 1087 - Abel v. Ingram · Fago v. Fago · Fordyce v. Fordyce
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The modification ordered by the trial court would change the entire pattern of the child’s life and subject her to new routines and different standards of discipline. Except in cases of necessity such change is not desirable, For- dyce v. Fordyce, supra, and we find in this record no apparent necessity for thus upsetting the established order of things. At best, the change would be in the nature of an experiment, and experiments with a trust of this nature should not be indulged. Irvine v. Aust, Mo.App., 193 S.W.2d 336”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Townsend v. Townsend
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.