Davis v. O'BRIEN’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2019
1 district · 23 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[T]he rules pertaining to preservation of error in trial courts are intended to advance goals such as ensuring that the positions of the parties are presented clearly to the initial tribunal and that parties are not taken by surprise, misled, or denied opportunities to meet an argument.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“isolated statements made in committee are not necessarily indicative of the intent of the entire legislature”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Preservation rules generally require that a point be raised earlier rather than later.”
1 later decision 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.