Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably Phillips v. State (1946), Jackson v. State (1934)
57 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 Cross v. State · Gassenheimer v. State · Harden v. State · Williams v. State · City of Tuscaloosa v. Hill
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the right of counsel under the guidance of the court, to discuss the rules of law applicable to the different phases of the testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court has a general discretion in such matters, to be revised only when abused.”
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.