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← 290 Ga. 757 - Davis v. State

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.

  1. “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
  2. “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 passage

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.