State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably United States v. Peterson (1975), State v. Berger (2006)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 6 Cal. 3d 628 - People v. Anderson · State v. Tacon · In re Graham · Graham v. Weeks · State v. Superior Court
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““find a particular penalty so severe as to shock the conscience of society and require a holding that it violates the constitutional mandate. Such holdings will have to be made on a case-by-case approach which will conform to the general mores of society at the time of the decisions.” State v. Davis, 108 Ariz. 335, 337 , 498 P.2d 202, 204 (1972). See also, Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86 , 78 S.Ct. 590 , 2 L.Ed.2d 630 (1958).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mulalley
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.