Davis v. Sponhauer’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2016
13 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 Philbin v. Carr · Kahn v. Cundiff · Kahn v. Cundiff · 179 Ind. App. 592 - Kline v. Kramer · 168 Ind. App. 262 - City of Fort Wayne v. State Ex Rel. Hoagland
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any civil action, the court may award attorney's fees as part of the cost to the prevailing party, if the court finds that either party: (1) brought the action or defense on a claim or defense that is frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the claim of ownership must be based on some ground justifying the adverse claimant's belief that he is the owner”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fraley v. Minger“must be strictly proved by evidence that is clear, positive, and unequivocal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Wiley
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.