Davidson v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1980
23 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 Tay, Brooks & Backus v. Hawley
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the joint property of all the associates,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In an action brought under this section it is not necessary to name all of the associates as defendants. In fact, the association designated by its common name is the only defendant, and the judgment authorized is one binding only the joint property of the association.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.