Davis v. Halifax County School System’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2013
2 federal appellate · 4 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 38 U.S.C. § 2021
Relies on Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Kay v. General Cable Corp. · United States ex rel. Stanley v. Wimbish · Collins v. Weirton Steel Co. · Witter v. Pennsylvania National Guard
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is only applicable `where reinstatement would require creation of a useless job or where there has been a reduction in the work force that reasonably would have included the veteran.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.