William Berry v. Rudolph Davis’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 468 · 1917
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. (1950), Poe v. Ullman (1961)
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 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 Mills v. Green · United States of America v. Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien Gesellschaft No 289 Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien Gesellschaft · Jones v. Montague · Dinsmore v. Southern Express Co.
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This pro forma action, the supreme court at Washington by vacating and the Wisconsin supreme court by so-called reversing, under the circumstances, surely has not erased and annihilated our supreme court’s decision in the Beloit Case on the merits. “Said the supreme court of the United States in Berry v. Davis, 242 U. S. 468, 470 , 61 L. Ed. 441 , 442: “ ‘An appeal was taken to this court in 1914. In 1915 the act of 1913 was repealed, and the substituted act does not apply to the plaintiff. . . . Therefore, upon the precedents we are not called upon to consider the propriety of the action of the district court, but the proper course is to reverse the decree and remand the cause, with directions that the bill be dismissed without costs to either party.’ ””
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.