Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably 325 Ga. App. 267 - Martinez v. State (2013), Hedden v. State (2011)
25 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 Davis v. State · Fleming v. State · State v. Wiley · State v. Mills · Scott 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plain language of the [first offender] statute provides that, ... once a first offender has been discharged without an adjudication of guilt, he or she stands completely exonerated and shall not be considered as having been convicted of a crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ny person who has been convicted of a serious violent felony in this state ... and who after such first conviction subsequently commits and is convicted of a serious violent felony for which such person is not sentenced to death shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life without parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sparks“Only a court that imposed first offender probation has authority to revoke that status; it is the only legal authority that can formally adjudicate the offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sparks
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.