Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), Castell v. State (1983)
6 federal appellate · 36 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 90
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Taylor v. Louisiana · Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus · Boulden v. Holman · Davis v. Georgia
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“given the neutral selection method primarily used by the Troup County jury commissioners, the statistical disparity between the percentage of blacks eligible for jury service and the percentage of blacks in the 1975 traverse jury list affords no ground for relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Zant
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.