Davis v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1985
7 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 Alabama Power Co. v. Kendrick · Carolina-Portland Cement Co. v. Alabama Construction Co. · Thomas v. White · Stewart v. Goode & Ulrick · Grigg v. Gilmer
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is therefore, ordered and adjudged by the Court that the defendants go hence without day and have and recover of plaintiff all costs in this cause created, for the recovery of which, let execution issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Stephens
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.