Davis v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 1471 · 1997
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Bullock v. Carver (2002), Sims v. Singletary (1998)
49 federal appellate · 13 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 Teague v. Lane · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lindh v. Murphy · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Blackledge v. Allison
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he mere fact a defendant can find, years after the fact, a mental health expert who will testify favorably for him does not demonstrate that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to produce that expert at trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is clear that the references to and descriptions of the jury’s sentencing verdict in this case as an advisory one, as a recommendation to the judge, and of the judge as the final sentencing authority are not error under Caldwell — because they accurately characterize the jury’s and judge’s sentencing roles under Florida law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o the extent of any inconsistency between our [prior opinions'] pronouncements and the Supreme Court's supervening ones, of course, we are required to heed those of the Supreme Court.”
2 later decisions 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.