Davis v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Sauter v. St. Michael's College (1962), Fredenburgh v. Allied Van Lines, Inc. (1968)
26 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 Nichols v. Anderson · Ritter-Walker Co. v. Bell · Alamogordo Improvement Co. v. Prendergast · Morstad v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry Co. · Vermont Farm MacH. Co. v. Ash
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Absolute certainty as to damages sustained is, of course, in many cases impossible; all that the law requires is that such damages be allowed as directly and naturally result from the injury. * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Teal
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.