Davis v. Hill Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
549 F.2d 314 · 1977
Citation profile
113 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 221 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Greenbriar, Ltd. v. City of Alabaster (1989), Jackson v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (1982)
113 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 112 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · United States v. District Court
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 221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(e) A corporation may be sued in any judicial district in which it is incorporated or licensed to do business or is doing business, and such judicial district shall be regarded as the residence of such corporation for venue purposes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]n order to prove `substantial work' equivalent to permanent assignment `it must be shown that [the claimant] performed a significant part of his work aboard the vessel with at least some degree of regularity and continuity.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Nevertheless, since the duty to provide a safe place to work allocates substantial risks of maritime employment to the employer, identical conduct is not demanded of the employer and the employee... The law allocates different risks to different parties, and that allocation forms parts of the reasonableness equation in the negligence determination. A defendant's standard of care, like that of the plaintiff, varies according to the conduct in which the party is engaged.”
3 later decisions 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.