Davies Warehouse Co. v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis
321 U.S. 144 · 1944
Citation profile
152 federal appellate · 40 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 427 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. (1980), Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. (1947)
152 federal appellate · 40 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 15 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 824 (§ 201 of the Federal Power Act of 1920)
Relies on D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Munn v. Illinois · Morgan v. Commissioner · Blair v. Commissioner
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 427 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“give meaning and content to federal statutes”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * the reasonable view appears to be that Congress by the term ‘public utilities’ exempted those whose charges already were regulated as public utilities and hence were not probable sources of inflationary dangers.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the regulation of * * * rates charged by any common carrier or other public utility.””
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.