Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.2d 512 · 1938
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1996 · most notably Davis v. Davis (1938), Alabama Power Co. v. Federal Power Commission (1942)
21 federal appellate · 17 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Mattox v. United States · Langnes v. Green · Messenger v. Anderson · Baldwin v. Ionwa State Traveling Men's Ass'n · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock
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.
“The Virginia court did not have full jurisdiction of the parties and the subject matter, and, hence, the decree was not entitled to full faith and credit. ... It was necessary . . . under . . . Haddock v. Haddock [ 201 U. S. 562 ] . . . that Virginia be the last matrimonial domicil of the parties, or, if not, that the wife be subjected to the jurisdiction of the court [below] either by personal service within the State, or by voluntary appearance and participation in the suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Davis““It has been held that the marriage of a minor daughter, creating relationships inconsistent with parental control, emancipates her from the custody, care and control of her parents; that an emancipation works as complete a severance of the legal filial relationship as if the child had reached majority, thus relieving the parent of all legal obligation for support * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crook v. Crook
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.