Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Graham (1986), Williams v. State (1983)
89 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Sandstrom v. Montana · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Ng Kam Fook v. P a Esperdy · Gibbons 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“OCGA § 24-9-81 provides that the exclusive method by which a party may impeach his own witness is by proof of a `previous contradictory statement.' ")), the trial court did not err in this case because Jones did not demonstrate that the witness was subject to impeachment. "A party may not impeach a witness voluntarily called by him, except where he can show to the court that he has been entrapped by said witness by a previous contradictory statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State“In Davis, the Court stated that [i]f, at the time of the questioning, a party has knowledge of a prior statement by one of his witnesses which contradicts testimony that witness has just given, that party has been sufficiently entrapped so that he may impeach his witness by use of the prior inconsistent statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Outlaw 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.