Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2025
1 district · 14 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 Boykin v. Alabama · United States v. Wade · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Wjhen statutes provide for increased punishment where crimes are committed under aggravated circumstances, the particulars of aggravation [even though not elements of the crime] are so intimately connected with the ‘nature’ of the accusation that they must be alleged in the indictment or information and proved at trial for the accused to he sentenced to the greater penalty.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davenport
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.