Davis v. Michigan Department of the Treasury’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
560 federal appellate · 141 district · 285 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,842 later decisions (122 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (2000), Patterson v. Shumate (1992)
560 federal appellate · 141 district · 285 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.
Relationships
Applies 4 U.S.C. § 111 · 5 U.S.C. § 8331 (Capitol Police Retirement Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8339
Relies on Morissette v. United States · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · Raphan v. United States · Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Cited together with Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain
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 1,842 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a fundamental canon of statutory construction that the words of a statute must be read in their context and with a view to their place in the overall statutory scheme.”
79 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The United States consents to the taxation of pay or compensation for personal service as an officer or employee of the United States ... by a duly constituted taxing authority having jurisdiction, if the taxation does not discriminate against the officer or employee because of the source of the pay or compensation.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Legislative history is irrelevant to the interpretation of an unambiguous statute.”
15 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.