Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 1959
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. West · People v. Verdegreen · 58 Tex. Crim. 621 - Alexander v. State · Commonwealth v. Shaw
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person who shall commit an assault and battery upon a female under the age of twelve (12) years, with the intent to unlawfully carnally know her, shall on conviction be punished as in case of rape.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State
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.