Davis v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1989
6 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 7 U.S.C. § 1365 · 7 U.S.C. § 1367
Relies on Crolley v. Tatton · Buckles v. Morristown Kayo Company · 165 F. Supp. 377 - Vann v. Jackson · 54 F. Supp. 373 - Larkin v. Roseberry
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Action to recover such liability may be maintained in any court of competent jurisdiction by any one or more employees for and in behalf of themselves and other employees similarly situated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“removed improvidently and without jurisdiction.”
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.