Davis v. Pringle’s Empirical Analysis
268 U.S. 315 · 1925
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 45 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 245 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Dotterweich (1943), United States v. Cooper Corp. (1941)
84 federal appellate · 45 district · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sloan Shipyards Corporation v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation · Guarantee Title Trust Company v. Title Guaranty & Surety Company · Schall v. Camors · Davis v. Coyle
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 245 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Debts owing to any person who by the laws of the states or the United States is entitled to priority: Provided that the term ‘person’ as used in this section shall include corporations, the United States and the several states and territories of *the United States.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the use of the phrase 'any person' is insufficient to authorize an action by the Government. This conclusion is supported by the fact that if the purpose was to include the United States, 'the ordinary dignities of speech would have led' to its mention by name.”
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.