Davis v. Davis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• to allow a party “to choose the most profitable of the two, [judgments is] a species of gambling not allowed in a court of justice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kahn v. Traders Insurance
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1893-12-01· cited 38×
• Nelson v. Wallace
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1892-02-16· cited 23×
• Roden v. Helm
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1905-12-12· cited 20×
• In Re the Marriage of Neal
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1985-09-12· cited 16×
• Kessler v. Clayes
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1910-02-01· cited 13×
• Smiley v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1887-04-15· cited 13×
• Ess v. Griffith
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1895-03-26· cited 13×
• Ewing v. Lunn
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1908-03-07· cited 11×
• Rogers v. Bond
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1992-07-21· cited 7×
• Lamkin v. Sterling
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1867-01-15· cited 3×
• Samuel v. Morton
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1844-07-15· cited 2×
• Davidson County v. Olwill
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1879-12-15