Davis v. Florida Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Lainhart v. Catts (1917), 468 So. 2d 936 - Everton v. Willard (1985)
1 federal appellate · 50 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Barbier v. Connolly · Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · Hammond Packing Company v. State of Arkansas · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. McGuire
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equal protection of the laws requires that in governmental regulations every person shall be accorded rights, privileges, exemptions, and remedies substantially similar to those that are given to others under practically similar circumstances and conditions; . . . and that no essentially unjust or merely arbitrary discriminations of a substantial nature shall be made between persons who are in reality similarly situated or conditioned with reference to the regulations and its practical consequences . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The mere failure of the Legislature to extend the regulation to single individuals does not render the regulation invalid as to those affected by it, when those so included are not injured by an arbitrary exertion of the powers of government. If those associations of persons that are included in the regulation perpetrate negligent injuries,' they cannot justly complain that individuals in their several capacity as such individuals are not subject to similar liability.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Due process of law requires that legislative regulations shall not be a merely arbitrary exertion of the powers of government or violate the provisions and principles of fundamental law on the subject; and equal protection of the laws requires that legislative regulations shall not violate constitutional inhibitions or be merely arbitrary in applying to some persons and not to others under similar conditions.””
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.