Davis v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 92 · 1924
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 12 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000 · most notably Louisville Co v. Chatters Southern Ry Co (1929), Insurance Co. of North America v. Newtowne Mfg. Co. (1951)
57 federal appellate · 12 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Georgia Florida Alabama Railway Company v. Blish Milling Company · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Ward · Davis v. Cornwell · Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Henderson
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contention is that the rule was waived. It could not be. The transportation service to be performed was that of common carrier under published tariffs. The rule was a part of the tariff. Georgia, Florida & Alabama Ry. Co. v. Blish Milling Co., 241 U.S. 190 , 197, 36 S.Ct. 541 , 60 L.Ed. 948 ; Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry. Co. v. Ward, 244 U.S. 383 , 388, 37 S.Ct. 617 , 61 L.Ed. 1213 ; Davis v. Cornwell, 264 U.S. 560 , 562, 44 S.Ct. 410 , 68 L.Ed. 848 .””
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.