Thomas v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1954
3 federal appellate · 18 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 John Van Ness v. Perez Pacard · Buckley v. Buckley · Burnside v. Twitchell · Pike v. Middleton · Lathrop v. Blake
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the absolute owner of land in fee for the purpose of better using the land, erects upon and affixes to the freehold, certain machinery, such as is in nse in making coal, and in mines, it will go to the heirs as part of the real estate; and if the corpus of such machinery belongs to the heir all that.belongs to the machinery, although more or less capable of being detached and being used in such detached estate, from it, must be considered as belonging to the heir.””
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.