7 F. Supp. 596 - Mays v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1975
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“names and addresses of the beneficiaries of trusts created by will where the widow, a beneficiary, has elected to take under the will . . . where the will provides for payment to her of income of the trust estate; and where income was paid to the widow”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to grant the prayer thereof would be to grant a mere . . . [exploratory] search for information on the part of the petitioner, and that not being within the law that the petition should be refused.”
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.