Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
37
cited by 37 later decisions
2
states following
September 2024
most recently cited
37 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Kelly · Robinson v. State · State v. Jackson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where there is sufficient evidence of a confrontation between the defendant and the victim, or other circumstances which ordinarily would support a charge on justification, the defendant is not precluded from raising justification as a defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the proper inquiry is whether the instruction was erroneous, whether it was obviously so, and whether it likely affected the outcome of the proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Manning 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.