Davidson v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1958
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 Owen v. City of Tulsa · Hope v. Bourland · Cleveland v. Rankin · Dockstader v. Gibbs · Schafer v. Midland Hotel Co.
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.
“‘‘Proof establishing a fact so thoroughly as to take it out of the range of controversy must necessarily be of an exceedingly high -order. In fact, such proof could rarely, if ever, be produced. There are cases, however, where the proof could be made so clear .and decisive as to establish the fact to a moral certainty, and to leave no room for a reasonable doubt in the minds of men of •ordinary intelligence. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cantrell v. O'Neill
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.