Davies v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Continental Potash, Inc. v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc. (1993), Levenson v. Mobley (1987)
57 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 20 Cal. 2d 751 - Universal Sales Corp. v. California Press Manufacturing Co. · 27 Cal. 2d 794 - O'MORROW v. Borad · Hoge v. Farmers Market & Supply Co. of Las Cruces, Inc. · Bishop v. Beecher · Ballard v. MacCallum
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court’s duty is confined to interpretation of the contract which the parties made for themselves, and [the court] may not alter or make a new agreement for the parties.””
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.