Davis v. Commonwealth of Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
236 U.S. 697 · 1915
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1973 · most notably Matthews v. Rodgers (1932), McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. (1940)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 Browning v. City of Waycross · Crenshaw v. Arkansas · Alfred Dozier v. State of Alabama
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court below thought that the purchase of the frames was to be regarded as a separate transaction occurring wholly in Virginia. Whether or not this was its technical aspect as an executed contract, it often has been pointed out that commerce among the states is a practical not a technical conception. * * * From the point of view of commerce the business was one affair.””
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.