Spiers v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2015
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Fromkin v. State · State ex rel. Board of Public Education v. Johnson · Wolfenden v. Board of Commissioners · Williams v. County Commissioners
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are some circumstances under which a requirement that a certain act shall be done on a date named may be treated as directory, but that is not possible when the statute conferring a power provides that it shall be performed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. . Comrs.
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.