Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2003
4 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 Houston Ice & Brewing Co. v. Keenan · Ontario Deciduous Fruit Growers' Ass'n v. Cutting Fruit Packing Co. · Anderson v. May · Northern Irr. Co. v. Dodd · Northern Irr. Co. v. Watkins
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that an intervening impossibility of performance which might reasonably have been anticipated and guarded against in the contract does not excuse performance.””
1 later decision 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.