State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Jones (1981), State v. Herring (1988)
68 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 State v. Johnson · State v. Miller · State v. Noell · John Rooney v. State of North Dakota · State v. Monk
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ W]hen a request is made for a specific instruction, correct in itself and supported by evidence, the trial court, while not obliged to adopt the precise language of the prayer, is nevertheless required to give the instruction, in substance at least, and unless this is done ... the failure will constitute reversible error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n prosecutions for rape ...[,] when all the evidence tends to show a completed act of intercourse and the only issue is whether the act was with the prosecuting witness’s consent or by force and against her will, it is not proper to submit to the jury lesser offenses included within a charge of rape.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Evidence has been received with regard to the reputation of the witnesses, Joyce Johnson, Nancy Johnson and Diane Walker, that is the defendant offered the testimony of Chief of Police of North Wilkesboro that as to each of those girls their reputation was not good. You may consider this evidence for one purpose. If you believe all or any part of this evidence and find that it bears upon one of those particular girls’ statements as a witness as to their truthfulness, you may consider it, together with all the other facts and circumstances bearing upon that particular witness’s truthfulness, in deciding whether you will believe or disbelieve their testimony at this trial. Except as it may bear on this decision this evidence may not be considered by you in your determination of any facts in this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goss
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.