Davidson v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
849 federal appellate · 288 district · 196 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,541 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Daniels v. Williams (1986), County of Sacramento v. Lewis (1998)
849 federal appellate · 288 district · 196 state decisions — followed in 31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDavidson v. O'Lone (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · United States v. Leon · Bell v. Wolfish
Cited together with Daniels v. Williams · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Parratt v. Taylor · Harlow v. Fitzgerald
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 2,541 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to prevent government from abusing [its] power, or employing it as an instrument of oppression.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no procedure for compensation is constitutionally required.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To hold that injury caused by such conduct is a deprivation within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment would trivialize the centuries old principle of due process of law.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.