State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Payne v. Robinson (1988), State v. Patterson (1996)
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goss v. Lopez · Hewitt v. Helms
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether [the petitioner] has a liberty interest arising from the due process clause, the issue that must be resolved is whether [the petitioner], following a valid conviction, has a constitutional right to be sentenced to a particular type of facility. We hold that he does not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Liberty interests protected by the Fourteenth Amendment may arise from two sources — the Due Process Clause itself and the laws of the States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the conviction has sufficiently extinguished the defendant's liberty interest to empower the State to confine him in any of its prisons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.