Davis v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2008
2 federal appellate · 15 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 D. M. Rose & Co. v. Snyder · 22 Tenn. App. 70 - Gargaro v. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. · 31 Tenn. App. 429 - McMahan v. Tucker · 48 Tenn. App. 54 - Camurati v. Sutton · 62 Tenn. App. 292 - Cohen v. Cook
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even were we to find the charge as given to be less than perfect, or the appellants' instruction to be more nearly perfect, which we do not, appellants were not entitled to a perfect charge--'a charge which states the law with substantial accuracy and fairly submits the issues to the jury should not be grounds for reversal'”
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.