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State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

222
cited by 222 later decisions
1
states following
November 2025
most recently cited

222 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 222 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Miller v. Commissioner of Correction (1997), State v. Faraday (2004)

222 state decisions

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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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Addington v. Texas · Minnesota v. Murphy · Alexander v. United States

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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`induces in the mind of the trier a reasonable belief that the facts asserted are highly probably true, that the probability that they are true or exist is substantially greater than the probability that they are false or do not exist.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 7596 - State v. $445.00 in U.S. Currency/1 1988 Chev., No. 16-345af (Jul. 26, 1994)
  2. “of a probation violation and, most relevant to our purposes, because a revocation of probation proceeding is not a criminal proceeding, it would be a misnomer to say that a finding of a violation of probation could be”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. State v. Dudley
  3. “the authorities are virtually unanimous in concluding that the standard of proof used in a criminal trial, namely 'beyond a reasonable doubt,' is not applicable to a probation revocation hearing”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. 183 Conn. App. 354 - State v. Taveras

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.