Davis v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 33 U.S.C. § 905 · 46 U.S.C. § 30104 (Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act)) · 46 U.S.C. § 30106
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Jones v. Rath Packing Co. · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Panama Co v. Johnson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Admiralty and maritime law, are areas in which Congress has created a broad scheme of legislation and has expressed a particular interest in developing uniform laws which would remove the “discrepancies” resulting from the application of state statutes, (emphasis added)”
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.