Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Ruffin v. State (1979), Street v. State (1976)
48 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 Joyner v. State · Moore v. State · Gravitt v. State · Whippler v. State · Lovejoy v. Tidwell
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The scope of cross examination lies largely within the discretion of the trial court. It will not be disturbed by this court unless it is shown there has been an abuse of that discretion. No such abuse is disclosed by this record. [Cits.]” Davis v. State, 230 Ga. 902, 904 (3) ( 199 SE2d 779 ). 5. Defendant contends the trial court’s instruction on the substantive offense of aggravated assault was erroneous”
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.