Davis v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 286 · 1958
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 914 - Gibson v. Gibson (1971), Falco v. PADOS (1971)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · King v. Order of United Commercial Travelers of America · Olberding v. Illinois Central Railroad · Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia v. Gold Issue Mining & Milling Company
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A civil action wherein jurisdiction is founded only on diversity of citizenship may, except as otherwise provided by law, be brought only in the judicial district where all plaintiffs or all defendants reside.””
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.