Davis v. Newton Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 292 · 1925
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1984 · most notably San Diego Gas & Electric Co. v. City of San Diego (1981), Baltimore or Co v. United States (1936)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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 Missouri Pac Co v. Ault · E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Co. v. Davis · United States v. New River Collieries Co. · United States v. Illinois Cent R Co Wyoming Ry Co · Commercial Trust Co of New Jursey v. Miller
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Actions at law, suits in equity and proceedings in admiralty, based on causes of action arising out of the possession, use or operation by the President of the railroad or system of transportation of any carrier ... of such character as prior to federal control could have been brought against such carrier, may, after the termination of federal control, be brought against an agent designated by the President for such purpose,' which agent shall be designated by The President within thirty days after the passage of this act. Such actions, suits, or proceedings may, within the periods of limitation now prescribed by state or federal statutes but not later than two years from the date of the passage of this act, be brought in any court which but for federal control would have had jurisdiction of the cause of action had it arisen against such carrier.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The act of Congress providing for federal control, of railroads as a war-time measure (Act March 21, 1918, section 10, 40 Stat. 456 [Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, section 3115%]]), provided that during said control, in suits against a carrier, no defense should be interposed upon the ground that the carrier was an instrumentality of the federal government. The Transportation Act of 1920 created an agency by which controversies arising during federal, control might be liquidated, and in our opinion carries with it in spirit the law providing for federal control, to-wit, that the agency of the government for this purpose should be amenable to the provisions of law applicable to common carriers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company or the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, while operating its own line, had seized and used the coal as the United States did while they operated those roads, the jurisdiction of the state court of actions to recover damages or compensation would be clear. And so, under the Transportation Act, that court properly entertained the proceedings now before us.””
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.