Davis v. Shultz’s Empirical Analysis
453 F.2d 497 · 1971
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by William Sheppard, Insurance Commissioner v. National Association of Flood Insurers, an Unincorporated Association (1975), Charles E. Chaudoin v. Clarence E. Atkinson, Jr (1974)
12 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 1653 · 42 U.S.C. § 2737 · 42 U.S.C. § 2790 · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Rosado v. Wyman · Snyder v. Harris · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not lie to compel the discharge of an action committed to discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . A party asserting § 1331 [(a)] jurisdiction has the burden of establishing by competent and preponderate evidence that his claims exceed $10,000. Normally an allegation of $10,000 damages made in good faith is sufficient, but if it appears to [be] a legal certainty that the plaintiff cannot recover the jurisdictional amount, the case will be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A prerequisite of a properly maintainable class action under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23 is that the plaintiff representative be a member of the class which he purportedly represents.”
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.