Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne (2009), 140 S. Ct. 1062 - Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr (2020)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 12 U.S.C. § 5567 · 15 U.S.C. § 7201 (§ 2 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10a of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78U (§ 21 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78u-6 · 18 U.S.C. § 1513 · 18 U.S.C. § 1514A (§ 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Garcia v. United States · Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd. · Zuber v. Allen
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven when, as here, a statute's meaning can clearly be discerned from its text, consulting reliable legislative history can still be useful ....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]hen Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another[,]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e are a government of laws, not of men, and are governed by what Congress enacted rather than by what it intended.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.