Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Mitchell v. State (1988), Yocum v. State (1996)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 States v. Leon · Shadwick v. City of Tampa · Johnson v. State · Hill v. State · Allen 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant asserts the affirmative defense . of mental disease or defect. If, after considering all the evidence,’ you are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant engaged in the conduct alleged to constitute the offence, you should then consider the defense of mental disease or defect. A person is not criminally responsible for his conduct if at the time of that conduct, as a result of mental disease or ■mental defect, he lacked the capacity either to- appreciate .the criminality of his conduct or to conform' his conduct to the requirements of the law. Defendant has the burden of proving the defense by a preponderance of the evidence, unless the defense is so proved by other evidence in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cage 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.