643 So. 2d 931 - Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2013
15 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 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · 563 So. 2d 594 - Bell v. Parker · 610 So. 2d 348 - Tilley v. Tilley · 622 So. 2d 1226 - Crow v. Crow · 539 So. 2d 1378 - Leatherwood v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen opportunity knocks, one must answer its call. Elvis Davis failed to do so and thus her claim is all for naught. Our legislature has not extended the rights enjoyed by married people to those who choose merely to cohabit. To the contrary, cohabitation is still prohibited by statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The chancellor stated that after the parties had lived together in a relationship of husband and wife for a long period of time that it would not be fair and equitable for him to walk out and leave her as if she were a perfect stranger.... These people lived together and shared the vicissitudes of life for eighteen years. The separation cast her adrift just as surely as if she had been his lawful wife.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“remains a crime against public morals and decency....”
2 later decisions 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.