Sullivan v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2015
1 district · 14 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 Edwards v. . Noyes · Van Deusen v. . Young · Hart v. Henderson · Packard v. Inhab'ts of New Limerick · Griffin v. Creppin
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule in respect to all torts is that compensation, and compensation alone, is recoverable. Where more than actual compensation is asked, it is by virtue of some express statute, and the excess is by such statute given in the way of penalty.” (p. 34.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. ■ . except as limited and qualified by express statutory provisions, the rule of caveat emptor applies to all purchases at tax sales, and if the public has nothing to sell, the purchaser gets nothing.” (p. 32.)”
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.