Davis v. Bilsland’s Empirical Analysis
85 U.S. 659 · 1873
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1987 · most notably Fosdick v. Schall (1878), Ely v. New Mexico & Arizona Railroad (1889)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which provides that actions shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest.... When assigned, the claim really belonged to the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The lien secured to the mechanics and material men have precedence over all other incumbrances put upon the property after the commencement of the building. And this is just. Why should a purchaser or lender have the benefit of the labor and materials Avhich go into the property and give it its existence and value? At all events, the law is clear, and the decree was right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Matthews
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.