Davis v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1934
2 federal appellate · 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 Beall v. New Mexico · Ryus v. Gruble · Board of Commissioners v. Van Slyck · Steele v. Souder · Court of Probate of Scituate v. Smith
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.
““The liability of the administrator exists independently of the bond. . . . Our statute, however, gives the substituted administrator the right to maintain an action against his predecessor, as well as the sureties upon his bond.” (pp. 458, 459.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Galloway v. Freeburg
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.