Dahn v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
258 U.S. 421 · 1922
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 39 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably Brooks v. United States (1949), Johansen v. United States (1952)
74 federal appellate · 39 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHines v. Dahn (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Missouri Pac Co v. Ault · Bigby v. United States · Hines v. Dahn · Houlihan v. Sulzberger & Sons 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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not for the purpose of increasing [FECA] compensation, but for the purpose of reimbursing the Government for payments made and indemnifying it against other amounts payable in the future.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some person other than the United States”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tbe act does not contemplate or provide for suits against tbe government.””
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.