Davis v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1944
12 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 Horn v. Reitler · Routt v. Greenwood Cemetery Land Co. · Tribune Publishing Co. v. Hamill · Higgins v. People
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is not true that such transfer of a note does not invest the purchaser with title. At common law he took the equitable title, and at law could sue only in the name of the last holder of the legal title but this distinction has been abrogated by the requirement of the code that actions shall be prosecuted in the name of the real parties in interest; * * *”
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.