Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
203 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Heat & Power Corp. v. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (1990), Ross v. Hoffman (1977)
203 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 Speiser v. Randall · National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc. · Hild v. Hild · Com. Ex Rel. Myers v. Myers · 322 So. 2d 22 - Dinkel v. Dinkel
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an action has been tried without a jury, the appellate court will review the case on both the law and the evidence. It will not set aside the judgment of the trial court on the evidence unless clearly erroneous, and will give due regard to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses.”
34 later decisions 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.