Davis v. Zimmerman’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1988
20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff [defendant] sought to estop the wife from claiming the property as against his mortgage by showing that the mortgage was given in part for her own board, and that she, knowing that fact, failed to notify defendant of her claim. Had she known at the time that the defendant was to take a mortgage as security for the payment for her board subsequently, and failed then to assert her right, there would be justice in setting up an estoppel against her.””
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.