Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 2008
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simpson v. Simpson · Turley v. Griffin · Eviston v. Eviston · Casale v. Casale · Wilkey v. Glisson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are required to treat [the biological parent] and [the adoptive parent] equally, that is, to ignore the fact of adoption and make our decision as if [the adoptive parent] were the natural father of appellant's child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sjls v. Tls
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.