State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2014
19 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 State Ex Rel. Turner v. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. · Barnett v. Durant Community School District · State v. Lawr · State v. Kool · City of Spencer Ex Rel. Spencer Municipal Utilities v. Hawkeye Security Insurance Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person committed to the penitentiary . . . shall escape from or leave without due authority any building . . . or any place whatsoever in which he is placed or to which he is directed to go or in which he is allowed to be ... whether inside or outside of the prison walls, he shall be deemed guilty of an escape from said penitentiary. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. State · State v. Moore“1. A person convicted of a felony, or charged with or arrested for the commission of a felony, who intentionally escapes, or attempts to escape, from a detention facility, community-based correctional facility, or institution to which the person has been committed by reason of the conviction, charge, or arrest, or from the custody of any public officer, public employee, or any other person to whom the person has been entrusted, commits a class “D” felony. [[Image here]] 3. A person who has been committed to an institution under the control of the Iowa department of corrections, to a community-based correctional facility, or to a jail or correctional institution, who knowingly and voluntarily is absent from a place where the person is required to be, commits a serious misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“when strictly construed as required, [ Iowa Code § 745.1 ] cannot be stretched to cover defendant's activity in this case. There is nothing in the statute which would put defendant on notice an unauthorized failure to Return [sic] would be encompassed within the `Escape from or Leave without due authority' language[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Moore
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.