Davis v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2009
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen it is remembered that a sheriff or other officer, who undertakes to arrest a citizen under a warrant, is bound to show his warrant, if demanded, to the person proposed to be arrested, and if he refuses to do so the arrest may be lawfully resisted [internal citation omitted], we think it would be very dangerous to the peace of society for the court to hold that a paper, which shows on its face that it is an unfinished paper . . . would be a sufficient justification for an arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Covert“a warrant need not be under seal, yet it must be in writing, and signed by the officer issuing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Covert“entirely innocent of any intentional wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Covert
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.