State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
May 1990
most recently cited
2 district · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · State v. Tweedy · State v. Davis · State v. Rodman · State v. Rodman
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is within the discretion of the trial court to direct that sentences imposed for separate crimes be served consecutively, as opposed to concurrently.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Irish
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.