Davie v. Terrill’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1955
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The testimony of the witness Williams, excluded by the court, we think was admissible as narrating circumstances tending to show that the order of sale under which the land in controversy was sold had been sent to the sheriff of Denton. county. It is not necessary that a witness should have a positive or full recollection of the facts to which he testifies, or that he should speak with such certainty as to exclude all doubt in his mind. 1 Greenl. on Ev. § 440.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.