Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1996
11 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1201 · 10 U.S.C. § 8883 · 10 U.S.C. § 8911 · 10 U.S.C. § 8913 · 10 U.S.C. § 8914 · 10 U.S.C. § 8991
Relies on Busby v. Busby · Spann v. City of Dallas · Spann v. City of Dallas · Lee v. Lee · Byrd v. City of Dallas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts have variously defined the word "property" as signifying the physical corporeal thing, or denoting rights and interest. It may be reasonably be construed to include obligations, rights and other intangibles, as well as physical things; and thus the word property means not only the thing possessed, that is, the physical corporeal thing, but also rights in the physical corporeal thing which are created and sanctioned by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Property] consists not merely in the ownership and possession, but in the unrestricted right of use, enjoyment and disposal.”); See also Davis v. Davis, 495 S.W.2d 607, 611 (Tex.Civ.App. — Dallas 1973, writ dismissed) (property is”
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.