Davidson v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1982
13 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 Christmas v. Russell · Oury v. Saunders · Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Ginther · Zapp v. Johnson and Dick · Hall Music Co. v. Robertson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person shall be incompetent to testify on account of color, nor because he is a party to a suit or proceeding or interested in the issue tried.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. McKibban
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.