State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2002 · most notably Jackson v. Denno (1964), Culombe v. Connecticut (1961)
8 federal appellate · 70 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 Brown v. Allen · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · McNabb v. United States · Watts v. Indiana · Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y specifically alleging the offense was committed in the perpetration of rape, the State confines itself to that allegation in order to show murder in the first degree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(I)n all the cases that have come here * * * from the courts of the various States in which it was claimed that the admission of coerced confessions vitiated convictions for murder, there has been complete agreement that any conflict in testimony as to what actually led to a contested confession is not this Court's concern. Such conflict comes here authoritatively resolved by the State's adjudication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barnes“attributable to that love of truth which predominates in the breast of every man not operated upon by other motives more powerful with him * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barnes
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.