Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Webb (1994), Pope v. State (1986)
4 federal appellate · 67 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 · Giglio v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lego v. Twomey
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[i]f it appears that a witness intends to claim the privilege [against self-incrimination] as to essentially all questions, the court may, in its discretion, refuse to allow him to take the stand. Neither side has the right to benefit from any inferences the jury may draw simply from the witness’ assertion of the privilege either alone or in conjunction with questions that have been put to him.” [Cit.] ... [0]ne reason for this rule is that reliable inferences do not ordinarily follow from a witness’ invocation of the Fifth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCord v. State · McCord v. State“[An offered plea of guilty] is neither mitigating nor aggravating, i.e., it does not relate to the defendant’s character, prior record, or to the circumstances of the offense; therefore, it is correctly excluded as irrelevant. OCGA § 17-10-30 (b); Wilson v. State, 250 Ga. 630, 639 ( 300 SE2d 640 ), cert. denied, 404 U. S. 865 (1983). The fact that a defendant has withdrawn a guilty plea would be inadmissible against him. Similarly, the fact that the state had withdrawn its offer should be inadmissible. A contrary rule would deter or preclude plea bargaining by the state to the detriment of other defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mobley v. State“We note that many of the objections he attempts to raise on appeal were not made at trial and were therefore waived ... Additionally, many simply do not constitute misconduct. To the extent that the prosecutor may have overstepped his bounds, he did not do so to an extent that resulted in reversible error. Ford v. State, 255 Ga. 81 (8 i) ( 335 SE2d 567 ) (1985).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pope 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.