Davis v. Manry’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 401 · 1925
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1999 · most notably Baltimore & Ohio Railway Co. v. Jackson (1957), Shields v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (1956)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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 Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Co. v. Moore · Pennell v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. · Boehmer v. Pennsylvania Railroad
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The omission to require a grab iron is a practical construction by the commission— the tribunal to which the application of section 2 [45 USCA § 11] was entrusted and which would be solicitous to enforce it — that it applies to cars with roofs and not to tenders, they having no roofs. While the view of the Commission is not conclusive with us, it is properly persuasive.””
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.