Bennett v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Bourjois, Inc. v. Chapman (1937), Bourjois, Inc. v. Chapman (1937)
37 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 Hagar v. · Marx v. Hanthorn · Cromwell v. . MacLean · Gilman v. . Tucker · Craig v. Flanagin
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“might put the citizen at the mercy of his adversary ... a result abhorrent to the very nature of constitutional government”
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.