Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1978
20 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 Pope v. State · Gilmore v. State · Brindley v. State · James v. State · Busby 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . There was substantial evidence of an alibi. But the witnesses so testifying might as well have been mistaken as to the exact day when defendant and his companions were in Birmingham as the State’s witnesses in their identification of them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graves 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.