Davenport v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Brewer v. Poole (2005), Rhuland v. Fahr (2004)
2 federal appellate · 83 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 Advanced Magnetics, Inc. v. Bayfront Partners, Inc. · Freeman v. Con-Agra Frozen Foods · Crowder v. Gordons Transports, Inc. · McKenzie v. Burris · Arkansas Tech University v. Link
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In light of our duty to ensure that parties are represented by people knowledgeable and trained in the law, we cannot say that the unauthorized practice of law simply results in an amendable defect. Where a party not licensed to practice law in this state attempts to represent the interests of others by submitting himself or herself to jurisdiction of a court, those actions such as the filing of pleadings, are rendered a nullity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[ejvery [wrongful-death] action shall be brought by and in the name of the personal representative of the deceased person. If there is no personal representative, then the action shall be brought by the heirs at law of the deceased person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under Ark.R.Civ.P.ll(a),“[a] party who is not represented by an attorney*shall sign his pleading, motion, or other paper and state his address and telephone number, if any.” In addition, Ark. R. Civ. P. 64(a), provides that, when additional counsel is employed to represent any party in a case, that counsel shall immediately cause the clerk to enter his name as attorney of record in the case and then shall notify the court and opposing counsel that he has been employed. Here, the lack of any signature by an attorney on the complaint is indicative of Appellants’ pro se status at the time this action commenced.”
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.