Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

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

1. “record is completely void of any evidence of a systematic and intentional exclusion of a qualified group of jurors so as to deny the appellant a jury of veniremen representing a cross section of the community,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. Georgia · Gray v. Mississippi

2. “'stack[ing] the deck against the petitioner.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Street v. State · Gray v. Mississippi

3. “In Owens v. State, 233 Ga. 869 ( 214 SE2d 173 ) (1975) we limited the power of the trial court to supplement the trial transcript pursuant to Code Ann. § 6-805 in the absence of a transcription of the voir dire examination by the reporter. We permitted supplementing the trial transcript in Coker v. State, 234 Ga. 555 ( 216 SE2d 782 ) (1975) only to the extent of establishing that no jurors had been excused for conscientious objection to capital punishment after appellant in that case had asserted in his brief that a number of prospective jurors had been excused on this ground.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Street v. State