Engel v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 33 · 1926
Citation profile
174 federal appellate · 54 district · 173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 667 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953)
174 federal appellate · 54 district · 173 state decisions — followed in 25 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 Panama Co v. Johnson · Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · Western Fuel Co. v. Garcia · Kendall v. United States ex rel. Stokes
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 667 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 688. Recovery for Injury to or Death of Seaman.' Any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending the common-law right or remedy in cases of personal injury to railway employees shall ap^ ply; and in ease of the death of any seaman as a result of any such personal injury the personal representative of such seaman may maintain an action for damages at law with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States conferring or regulating the right of action for death in the case of railway employees shall be applicable. Jurisdiction in such actions shall be under the court of the district in which the defendant employer resides or in which his principal office is located.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The adoption of an earlier statute by reference, makes it as much a part of the later act as though it had been incorporated at full length. It brings into the later act ‘all that is fairly covered by the reference,’ that is to say, all the provisions of the former act which, from the nature of the subject-matter, are applicable to the later act.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The jurisdiction of the courts of the United States under this chapter shall be concurrent with that of the courts of the several States, and no ease arising under this chapter and brought in any State court of competent jurisdiction shall be removed to any court of the United States.””
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.