Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
90 F. 791 · 1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1986
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Patapsco Insurance v. Southgate · Lowrey v. Kusworm · Cobb v. Tirrell · Leszynsky v. Merritt
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * If an attorney’s lien upon his client’s paper amounts to anything, I think he may assert it against the client, even when summoned by him t'o produce the papers by a subpoena duces tecum. The value of the lien often lies almost altogether in the power to withhold the papers from use as evidence, and that the debtor client should be allowed by a subpoena duces tecum to make practically worthless his creditor’s lien seems to me unjust.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.