Davis v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1955
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Carlin · Missouri Real Estate & Loan Co. v. Gibson · Boyd v. Ellis · McAnally v. Little River Drainage District · Daly v. Wilkie
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the interest of the Drainage District, as the trial court found, is subject to a lien in favor of Ethel S. Edwards for the sum of $862.26 for taxes paid on said lands and improvements, less such rents as may have been collected by her .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurt v. Edwards
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.