Davis v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably 75 Wash. 2d 241 - Black v. Evergreen Land Developers, Inc. (1969), Continental Life Ins. Co. v. Smith (1936)
38 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 Lawson v. Vernon · David v. Park · Morris v. . Whitcher · Hanson v. Tompkins · Disbrow v. . Harris
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rights and obligations of the parties cannot be measured by the deed alone. The contract is entitled 'to equal consideration. ‘It is not the ordinary case of the breach of a covenant in a deed, where the remedy would be á suit on the warranty, but the respective contracts here are dependent upon each other.’ ””
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.