State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2010
5 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 Edwards v. Heidelbaugh · McNulty Ex Rel. McNulty v. Heitman · City of Charleston Ex Rel. Brady v. McCutcheon · White River Development Co. v. Meco Systems, Inc. · Cuba's United Ready Mix, Inc. v. Bock Concrete Foundations, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny ... public utility which violates or fails to comply with any provision of the constitution of this state or of this or any other law ... is subject to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars for each offense ... [I]n case of a continuing violation each day’s continuance thereof shall be and be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An action to recover a penalty or a forfeiture under this chapter or to enforce the powers of the commission under this or any other law may be brought in any circuit court in this state in the name of the state of Missouri and shall be commenced and prosecuted to final judgment by the general counsel to the commission.”
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.