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← 255 So. 2d 916 - Davis v. State

255 So. 2d 916 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
August 1988
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Costello v. United States

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

  1. “At the original trial the victim of the rape, under oath, positively identified the petitioner as her assailant. There now exists, therefore, ample probable cause to detain him and take his fingerprints.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the law does not permit the court to go behind an indictment to inquire into evidence considered by the Grand Jury to determine whether it was in whole or part competent and legal.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.