Davis v. Pringle’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.2d 860 · 1924
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1991
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Missouri Pac Co v. Ault · Sloan Shipyards Corporation v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation · E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Co. v. Davis · United States Fidelity Guaranty Company Appt v. Mj Bray · United States v. State of Oklahoma
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The failure to include the United States and the states in the definition could not have been inadvertent. The United States and the several states of the- Union are not persons, and are not commonly thought of as persons, and if it had been intended that ‘persons’ should have such a comprehensive and unusual meaning as to include them, the framers of the definition would have said so.””
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.