Donovan v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 district · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission (1969), Morico v. Cox (1947)
2 district · 116 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 Hill v. Fair Haven & Westville Railroad · State ex rel. Andrew v. Lewis · Bitello v. Lipson · Seidler v. Burns · Decker v. Mann
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A single paragraph or paragraphs can only be attacked for insufficiency when a cause of action is therein attempted to be stated. . . .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“In no event should the motion to expunge be permitted to take the place of the demurrer, or of the motion to strike . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The only remedy by which to test the sufficiency of a cause of action . . . is a [motion to strike].”
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.