Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably RLI Insurance v. Coe (1991), Dickson v. Fletcher (2005)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 Lane v. Rachel · Miskimins v. City National Bank of Fort Smith · Foohs v. Bilby · FIRST AMERICAN NAT. BANK, ETC. v. Booth · Arkansas Valley Compress & Warehouse Co. v. Morgan
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.... (4) For fraud practiced by the successful party in obtaining the judgment. Appellant relies on Davis v. Davis, 291 Ark. 473 , 725 S.W.2d 845 (1987), in which we construed Rule 60 and held that "fraud" sufficient to compel the setting aside of a judgment is: [A] breach of legal or equitable duty which, irrespective of the moral guilt of the fraud feasor, the law declared fraudulent because of its tendency to deceive others ... Neither actual dishonesty of purpose nor intent to deceive is an essential element of constructive fraud.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e have many times held that there may be a constructive fraud even in the complete absence of any moral wrong or evil intention.”
2 later decisions 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.