Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2012 · most notably Barnes v. State (1998), Crowe v. State (1995)
5 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Green v. Georgia · Isaacs v. State · Dingler 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Juror Sparks] was the only prospective juror who had all of these characteristics. [Cit.] Under these circumstances, [Bryant] has not supported his claim that the State's reasons were pretextual. Rather, the record supports the trial court's determination that a discriminatory purpose was not involved in the State's use of a peremptory strike to remove [Juror Sparks]. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. State“where [,as here,] a prosecutor has disproportionately struck members of one race in the exercise of his peremptories, it is not sufficient rebuttal to rely on the composition of the jury as selected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“A reasonable suspicion about a prospective juror’s impartiality that falls short of justifying an excusal for cause might well justify the exercise of a peremptory strike.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Osborne 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.