Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Hurd v. District of Columbia (2017), 26 Kan. App. 2d 482 - Grimmett v. S & W Auto Sales Co. (1999)
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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 Allen v. McCurry · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · United States v. Mendoza · Gregory v. United States Government · Gaf Corporation v. United States Keene Corporation
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“renders conclusive in the same or a subsequent action determination of an issue of fact or law when (1) the issue is actually litigated and (2) determined by a valid, final judgment on the merits; (3) after a full and fair opportunity for litigation by the parties or their privies; (4) under circumstances where the determination was essential to the judgment, and not merely dictum.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. K.H. v. R.H. · In re Wilde
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.