Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 59 Cal. 2d 97 - Casey v. Proctor (1963), Marriott Financial Services, Inc. v. Capitol Funds, Inc. (1975)
6 federal appellate · 31 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 Early v. Eley · Harding v. Southern Loan & Insurance · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Don Allen Chevrolet Co. · Isley v. Brown · Harris v. Bingham
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who signs a written contract without reading it, when he can do so understandingly is bound thereby unless the failure to read is justified by some special circumstance. (Citations omitted.) To escape the consequences of a failure to read because of special circumstances, complainant must have acted with reasonable prudence.”
5 later decisions 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.