Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Hawk v. Hawk (1993), Arthur Cutshall v. Don Sundquist, Govenor of the State of Tennessee (1999)
3 federal appellate · 59 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.
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Wisconsin v. Yoder
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f no prior agreement exists, then the relative interests of the parties in using or not using the [pre-embryos] must be weighed”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“that an agreement regarding disposition of any untransferred preembryos in the event of contingencies (such as the death of one or more of the parties, divorce, financial reversals, or abandonment of the program) should be presumed valid and should be enforced as between the progenitors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“impose unwanted parenthood on [Junior], with all of its possible financial and psychological consequences.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.