State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably State v. Payne (2012), State v. Brown (2011)
57 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 United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · State v. Boscarino · State v. Herring · State v. Atkinson · State v. Jennings
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough we might disagree with the trial court's conclusion that the two cases were not brutal or shocking, we cannot say, as a reviewing court, that the trial court's conclusion, coupled with proper and adequate jury instructions, constituted an abuse of discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial court enjoys broad discretion, which, in the absence of manifest abuse, an appellate court may not disturb.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Perez
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.