Davis v. Foreman’s Empirical Analysis
251 F.2d 421 · 1958
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1980 · most notably Hoffman v. Halden (1959), Tarkowski v. Robert Bartlett Realty Co. (1980)
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Shelley v. Kraemer · Collins v. Hardyman · Williams v. Yellow Cab Co. of Pittsburgh · Shemaitis v. Froemke
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have here a classic example of what occurs when laymen attempt to institute a lawsuit without the benefit of legal counsel. With but rare exception the end result is needless harassment of the defendants, fruitless endeavor by the plaintiffs and an unnecessary burden upon the courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Civil Rights Act does not protect one from invasion of private rights by individual action . . . unless two or more persons conspire . . .. (T)he complaint totally fails to allege any facts which would confer jurisdiction . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sparkman v. McFarlin
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.