Davidson v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Builders' Supply Depot v. O'Connor (1907), More v. Johnson (1977)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · South & North Alabama Railroad v. Morris · Durkee v. City of Janesville · Randolph v. Builders & Painters Supply Co. · Wortman v. Kleinschmidt
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The appeal, as taken, in no way disturbed the personal judgment against Smith, Outcalt, and Clayton, which determined their liability; nor was there any occasion for the district court upon the trial of the question as to whether or not a lien existed against the property of appellants, to consider the personal liability of those parties. The court was therefore correct in so deciding, and refusing to dismiss the appeal."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Miller““In all suits for the foreclosure of liens provided for in this act in which the plaintiff shall obtain a judgment and decree of foreclosure against the property described in said lien, there shall be taxed as costs in addition to the costs already provided for in such cases, a reasonable sum as attorney fee to be fixed by the court at the time of rendering such judgment and decree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““To entitle a party to invoke the doctrine of estoppel, he must actually have been misled and induced to act to his prejudice by reason of another’s conduct, he having on, his part exercised due diligence to ascertain the truth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.