Davis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
185 F.2d 938 · 1950
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2009
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Stoll v. Gottlieb · United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · The Daniel Ball · United States v. Holt State Bank · Gilbert v. David
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A waterway, otherwise suitable for navigation, is not barred from that classification merely because artificial aids must make the highway suitable for use before commercial navigation may be undertaken. “There are obvious limits to such improvements as affecting navigability. These limits are necessarily a matter of degree. There must be a balance between cost and need at a time when the improvement would be useful. When once found to be navigable, a waterway remains so. . . . “Nor is it necessary that the improvement be actually completed or even authorized. The power of Congress over commerce is not to be hampered because of the necessity of reasonable improvements to make an interstate waterway available for traffic.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It seems to us that the requirement of an outlet to the sea may be eliminated as unnecessary to federal jurisdiction under the commerce power for the same reasons [as the ebb and flow of the tide]. . . . Davis v. United States, 185 F.2d 938 (9th Cir. 1950) cert. den. 340 U.S. 932 , 71 S.Ct. 495 , 95 L.Ed. 673 .”
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.