Davis v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
19 F. 477 · 1884
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1970
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 William Booth v. Ferdinand Clark · Choteau v. Raitt · Ohio & Mississippi Railroad v. Davis · Metz v. Buffalo, Corry & Pittsburgh Railroad · Farmers' L. & T. Co. v. Central Railroad of Iowa
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 railroad company is nob liable for the injuries complained of in the bill for the reason that they were committed while it was out of possession of the property and had no control over it. This conclusion is sustained by principle and authority”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.