Davis v. Wechsler’s Empirical Analysis
263 U.S. 22 · 1923
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 6 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 335 later decisions (161 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Napue v. People of the State of Illinois (1959)
44 federal appellate · 6 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Relationships
Relies on Ward v. Board of County Com'rs of Love County Okl · Creswill v. Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Georgia · American Railway Express Co. v. Levee · Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Journey
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 335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hatever springes the State may set for those who are endeavoring to assert rights that the State confers, the assertion of federal rights, when plainly and reasonably made, is not to be defeated under the name of local practice.”
11 later decisions 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.