Davidson v. Streeter’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably King v. Uhlmann (1968), Price v. Sinnott (1969)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Brison v. Brison · Brison v. Brison · Steinberger v. Steinberger · Cooney v. Glynn · 68 Cal. App. 2d 266 - Katz v. Enos
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. No estate or interest in lands . . . shall be created, granted, assigned, surrendered or declared . . ., unless by act or operation of law, or by deed or conveyance, in writing. 2. Subsection 1 shall not be construed to affect in any manner the power of a testator in the disposition of his real property by a last will and testament, nor to prevent any trust from arising or being extinguished by implication or operation of law. (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Locken v. Locken“the presumptive invalidity of [a] transaction on the ground of constructive fraud, where an attorney deals with his client for the former's benefit, can be overcome only by the clearest and most satisfactory evidence”
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.