State v. Davignon’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Pelican (1993), State v. Bacon (1995)
31 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 Whalem v. United States · State v. Morrill · Frendak v. United States · State v. Roy · State v. Francis
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So, when the evidence is sufficient to enable the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that several persons have formed a common design to assault another, and are present for that purpose at the place agreed upon for the commission of the offense, each one is criminally responsible for the acts of the others in the prosecution of the design, and for everything done by any one of them, which follows incidentally in the execution of the design as one of its natural consequences, even though it was not intended as a part of the original plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bacon“Here, defendant had experienced trial counsel, and there is nothing to suggest that counsel was acting against the wishes of his client. It may be that further facts would establish that trial counsel’s representation was inadequate because of a failure to raise and pursue an insanity defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bean
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.