Davis v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1966 · most notably 16 Cal. 2d 807 - Kalt v. Youngworth (1940), Jackson v. Lamar (1912)
7 federal appellate · 18 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The donee was incapable of understanding the transaction and a formal delivery of the deed to her would have been so extremely formal as to have been farcical.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This deed was either registered by direction of the donor or by direction of some one to whom he had delivered' the deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That case goes to the verge oí the law, and should be limited to its facts.””
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.