Davis v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Sharpe v. Baker (1911), Fairclaw v. Forrest (1942)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 Torrey v. . Torrey · Bevins v. Cline's Administrator · Indiana & Illinois R. R. v. Williams
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 7. All conveyances and devises of lands, or of any interest therein, made to two or more persons, except as provided in the next following section, sháll be construed to create estates in common, and not'in joint tenancy, unless it shall be expressed therein that the grantees or devisees shall hold the same in joint tenancy and to the survivor of them, or it shall manifestly appear from the tenor of the instrument that it was intended to create an estate in joint tenancy.”' “Sec. 8. The preceding section shall not apply to mortgages nor to conveyances in trust, nor when made to husband and wife; and every estate vested in executors or trustees as such shall be held by them in joint tenancy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Benson
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.