United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.2d 1509 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2017
9 federal appellate · 2 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 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (False Claims Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 5157
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Barefoot v. Estelle · United States v. Generes · Shaw v. Railroad 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“self-serving testimony, by itself, created a jury question with respect to his state of mind,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[n]o statute is to be construed as altering the common law, farther than its words import.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so fantastic, so internally inconsistent, or so speculative that it had no probative value”
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.