Davis v. McCall’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2011
5 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 Clear v. Patterson · Cox v. Fremont County Public Building Authority · Lewis v. Anchorage Asphalt Paving Co. · Aubrey v. Helton
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The best evidence rule is that ‘in proving the terms of a writing, where the terms are material, the original writing must be produced unless it is shown to be unavailable for some reason other than the serious fault of the proponent.’ Davis v. McCall, 568 P.2d 956, 959 (Alaska 1977) quoting C. McCormick, Handbook of the Law of Evidence § 230 at 560 (2d ed. 1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schmit v. Townsend
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.