Logan v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 613 · 1914
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 18 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2008 · most notably McKart v. United States (1969), Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States (1933)
86 federal appellate · 18 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Bement Sons v. National Harrow Company · Murdock v. City of Memphis · Stanley v. Schwalby · United States v. Moore · Hastings Co v. Whitney
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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Many thousands of acres have been patented to individuals under that interpretation, and to disturb it now would be productive of serious and harmful results. The situation, therefore, calls for the application of the settled rule that the practical interpretation of an ambiguous or uncertain statute by the executive department charged with its administration is entitled to the highest respect, and, if acted upon for a number of years, will not be disturbed except for very cogent reasons.””
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.