Davis v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 147 · 1924
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1991 · most notably Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (1943), Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957)
52 federal appellate · 99 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
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““His duty was primary and he had physical control of No. 4, and was managing its course.””
2 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.