Davault v. Essig’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably 19 Cal. 4th 26 - Quelimane Co. v. Stewart Title Guaranty Co. (1998), Tannhauser v. Adams (1947)
25 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 Turner v. People of State of New York · Saranac Land Timber Company v. James a Roberts · 16 E.H. Smith 371 - Meigs v. . Roberts · 22 Cal. 2d 269 - Mercury Herald Co. v. Moore · 27 Cal. 2d 61 - Rand v. Bossen
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A statute of limitations] will bar any right, however high the source from which it may be deduced, provided that a reasonable time is given a party to enforce his right.”
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.