Davis Forestry Corp. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 1325 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Domino Sugar Corporation v. Sugar Workers Local Union of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (1993), Ash v. Cvetkov (1984)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 29 U.S.C. § 1801 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 3610 (§ 810 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 7 U.S.C. § 2041
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Bailey Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is little doubt that the 1974 Amendments to FLCRA were intended to apply to forestry contractors who employ 'tree planters, thinners and other forest laborers.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the zone of interests sought to be protected”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Title 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 provides that the court of appeals shall have jurisdiction of appeals from all 'final decisions' of the district court. A dismissal without prejudice can be appealed as a final order.”
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.