Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
225 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Guardiola v. State (1978), Stowers v. State (1977)
225 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 Hash v. State · New v. State · Shipman v. State · Frasier v. State · Hubbard 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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) whether the tendered instruction correctly states the law, Gayer v. State, (1965) 247 Ind. 113 , 210 N.E.2d 852 ; (2) whether there is evidence in the record to support the giving of the instruction, Wathen v. State, (1965) 246 Ind. 245 , 204 N.E.2d 526 ; (3) whether the substance of the tendered instruction is covered by other instructions which are given, Hash v. State, (1972) 258 Ind. 692 , 284 N.E.2d 770 ; New v. State, (1970) 254 Ind. 307 , 259 N.E.2d 696 ; Cockrum v. State, (1968) 250 Ind. 366 , 234 N.E.2d 479 ."”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage““In order for a mistake of fact to excuse appellant from criminal liability, that mistake must be honest and reasonable. Honesty is a subjective test dealing with what appellant actually believed. Reasonableness is an objective test inquiring what a reasonable man situated in similar circumstances would do.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is a defense that the person who engaged in the prohibited conduct was reasonably mistaken about a matter of fact if the mistake negates the culpability required for commission of the offense."”
2 later decisions 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.