Davis v. Williford’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 484 · 1926
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2002 · most notably Caesar v. Burgess (1939), Hagwood v. Newton (2002)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 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 Rual Taylor v. Mrs Allie Parker · Cairo Co v. United States · Blundell v. Wallace · In Re Byford's Will
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person of lawful age and sound mind may 'by last will and testament devise and bequeath all of his estate, real and personal, and all interest therein; Provided, that no will of a full-blood Indian devising real estate shall be valid, if such last will and testament disinherits the parent, wife, spouse, or children of such full-blood Indian, unless acknowledged before and approved by a judge of the United States Court for the Indian Territory, or a United States Commissioner.” Sec. 23, c. 1876, 34 Stat. 145 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frost v. Davis
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.