Davis v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2003
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Gregg v. Georgia · McCleskey v. Zant · Nebraska v. Wyoming · Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc.
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.
“unpreparedness or the lack of due diligence alone will not suffice....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'DONNELL v. Durham
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.