Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably Neuenschwander v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (1946), Schisler v. State (2006)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of engrafting upon subjects of great public benefit and importance, for local or selfish purposes, foreign and often pernicious matters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.