Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Grillot v. State (2003), Duncan v. State (1987)
71 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 Payton v. New York · Gardner v. State · Giles v. State · Freeman v. State · Wright 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a police official makes a false promise which misleads a prisoner, and the prisoner gives a confession because of that false promise, then the confession has not been voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently made. In determining whether there has been a misleading promise of reward we look at the totality of the circumstances.The totality is subdivided into two main components!:] first, the statement of the officer and second, the vulnerability of the defendant. Because these two factors create such a multitude of variable facts, it has been impossible for us to draw bright lines of substantive distinction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Williams v. State“In establishing a chain of custody prior to the introduction of evidence at the trial, it is not necessary to eliminate every possibility that the evidence has been tampered with . . . The issue is whether the trial court abused its discretion in determining that in reasonable probability the integrity of the evidence was not impaired and that it had not been tampered with.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We make an independent determination based upon the totality of the circumstances, with all doubts resolved in favor of individual rights and safeguards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grillot v. State
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.