Davis v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
269 U.S. 114 · 1925
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2003 · most notably Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Du Bois (1941), Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway Co. (1926)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 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 Davis v. Donovan · Wichita Falls & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Puckett · Lehigh Valley R. Co. v. Dupont · Lehigh Valley R. v. Delachesa
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Where one railroad company actually controls another and operates both as a single system, the dominant company will be liable for injuries due to the negligence of the subsidiary company. Lehigh Valley R. Co. v. Dupont, 2 Cir., 128 F. 840 ; Lehigh Valley R. Co. v. Delachesa, 2 Cir., 145 F. 617 ; Wichita Falls & Northwestern Ry. Co. v. Puckett, 53 Okl. 463 , 157 P. 112 .””
3 later decisions 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.