Davis v. Alvord’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 545 · 1876
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 10 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Fosdick v. Schall (1878), Idaho Oregon Land Imp Co v. Bradbury (1889)
27 federal appellate · 10 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Rollins v. Forbes
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a suit in pqnily requiring specific directions for the sale of property, such as are usually given upon the foreclosure of mortgages and sale of mortgaged premises."”
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.