Davis v. O'Hara’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 federal appellate · 9 district · 19 state decisions

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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]e have jurisdiction to consider all of the substantial federal questions determined in the earlier stages of [state proceedings], . . . and our right to re-examine such questions is not affected by a ruling that the first decision of the state court became the law of the case. . . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 111 Ohio St. 726 - Gohman v. City of St. Bernard · Hathorn v. Lovorn

2. ““His petition did not show where the injury occurred or where he lived when injured. The director general appeared specially for the purpose of objecting to the jurisdiction of the court ‘ over the person of the defendant and over the subject-matter of this action,’ and moved to quash the summons; the grounds alleged were ‘that General Orders Nos. '50, 50A, 18, 18A, and 18B, issued by the director general, . . . provide that all suits against the director general of railroads, as authorized by General Order No. 50A, must be brought in the county or district where the plaintiff resided at the time of the accrual of the cause of action, or in the county or district where the cause of action arose’; that plaintiff, at the time of the accrual of the cause of action, did not reside in Douglas county, Neb., and that the cause of action, did not arise there. Plaintiff did not deny the allegations on which the motion was based. The district court overruled the motion without more. The defendant answered, setting up the same objection to jurisdiction and his defenses on the merits. Later, plaintiff filed an amended petition; and to that defendant filed answer, in which he again asserted his objection to jurisdiction. At the trial, after the evidence was heard, the court upon its own motion instructed the jury to return a verdict for defendant; and judgment was entered in his favor. The plaintiff made a motion for a new trial, which was denied. He then appealed to the supreme court. De”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davis v. Parks