Joyce v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 1262 · 1976
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Bowen v. Massachusetts (1988), Eaves v. Penn (1978)
30 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
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
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Cappaert v. United States · Quarles v. Fuqua Industries, Inc. · Stevens v. Barnard · United States v. Hunt
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... views and findings of a federal district judge ... involving the interpretation and application of the law of the state of the federal trial judge's residence ... where there are no decisions on point or none which provide clear precedent.”
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.