Davis v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1940
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The charges in the accounts are definite and plain, and it is to be assumed, under the provisions of the section just considered, that, in the absence of proof to the contrary, the moneys were paid as and for the purposes stated. There has been no concealment on the part of the guardian. The frequency and particularity with which he accounted is some evidence, at least, of good faith on his part in the management of the estate.” (At p. 481.)”
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.