Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably State v. Goodman (1979), State v. Sparrow (1970)
44 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 Miranda v. United States · Commonwealth v. Martin · State v. Rhinehart · State v. Thompson · State v. Cephus
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o give each juror an opportunity, before the verdict is recorded, to declare in open court his assent to the verdict which the foreman has returned, and thus to enable the court and the parties to ascertain with certainty that a unanimous verdict has been in fact reached and that no juror has been coerced or induced to agree to a verdict to which he has not fully assented.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Asbury · State v. Rowsey“(T)he verdict should be taken in connection with the issue being tried, the evidence, and the charge of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sparrow
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.