Davidson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Whittaker v. State (1927), Frost v. State (1932)
56 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 Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Lewis v. United States · Schwab v. Berggren · Bennett v. State · Sherrod v. State
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He may waive the right to be present when the verdict is received, which is not, as seems popularly supposed, a constitutional right, though a very sacred right, secured by the common law as well as by statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boreing v. Beard
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.