Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Salisbury Beauty Schools v. State Board of Cosmetologists (1973), Clea v. Mayor of Baltimore (1988)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 113 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 Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Buchanan v. Warley · Nashville St Ry v. Wallace · Semler v. Oregon State Board of Dental Examiners
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n this case complainant is affected by the [statute] and he is entitled to apply for declaratory judgment under the uniform act, rather than run the risk of being subjected to criminal prosecution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Although a State may not be sued without its consent, an officer of the State acting under color of his official authority may be enjoined from enforcing a State law claimed to be repugnant to the State or Federal Constitution, even though such injunction may cause the State law to remain inoperative until the constitutional question is judicially determined.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Millstone“supplement, not to supersede, existing remedies at law and in equity, and accordingly where an immediate cause of action exists for which one of the existing remedies is available and adequate, a proceeding for declaratory judgment is not appropriate within the contemplation of the Act.”
1 later decision 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.