Davis v. Gaines’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1968 · most notably Field v. Clark (1892), Leep v. Railway Co. (1894)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The same remarks apply to the passage of the bill without the previous publication of notice of the intention to introduce it. Section 26 of article 5, Constitution of 1874, requires evidence of such publication to be exhibited in the General Assembly before the bill becomes a law. But if the General Assembly chose to disregard this requirement, and to enact a local or special law without notice, no issue upon the subject of notice can be raised in the courts.””
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.