Daughtrey v. Daughtrey’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2013
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Aultman v. Kelly · Wolfe v. Stanford · 375 So. 2d 1049 - Thomas v. Bailey · Rankin v. Mark · Smith v. Stansel
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arises from the taking of a position by a party to a suit that is inconsistent with the position previously asserted in prior litigation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the court be satisfied that an equal division cannot be made....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The maxims of the chancery courts include two rules applicable here: ‘equity follows the law' and 'to protect and enforce property rights is the object of equity.'”
2 later decisions 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.