Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * We know ‘general’ and ‘special’ appearances but we have little help from the books in construing ‘personal appearance’. We conclude that the court means that the party came into court in his or her own person, as the party had done in the Sherrer and Coe cases, which the court had just referred to. Mrs. Lois Davis did not thus ‘personally’ appear.' “Under these circumstances we do not consider that the federal constitution nor the decisions interpreting it have called upon Wisconsin to surrender to the courts of another state this remnant of its historic right to determine for itself the marital status of its own residents, and we shall not surrender it until higher authority, speaking on the instant facts or on others which are indistinguishable, requires us to do so.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eaton v. Eaton