Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably 358 So. 2d 1040 - Bankston v. State (1978), 31 Ala. App. 423 - Shikles v. State (1944)
50 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 Hornsby v. State · Mitchell v. State · Miller v. State · Bluett v. State · Reeves v. State
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We are far from saying that defendant should have been acquitted on the ground of self-defense. Still, we think, there was some evidence tending to show self-defense, which thereupon, according to the long-standing precedents in this court, became a question for the jury. . . ." 214 Ala. at 276 , 107 So. at 740.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“". . . Without intending to pronounce judgment on the facts, we state what followed according to defendant's contention, because defendant had a right to have his version of the facts, so far as supported by tendencies of the evidence, taken into consideration by the jury . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it omitted to state that the belief of necessity to kill must be honestly entertained as well as reasonable.”
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.