Davasher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Williams v. State (2007), Bowen v. State (1995)
93 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 Rakas v. Illinois · Gruzen v. State · Bennett v. State · Free v. State · Prater 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has consistendy been held . . . that a jury is not bound to accept opinion testimony of experts as conclusive, and it is not compelled to believe their testimony any more than the testimony of other witnesses. Even when several competent experts concur in their opinions, and no opposing expert evidence is offered, the jury is bound to decide the issue upon its own judgment. Testimony by expert witnesses is to be considered by the jury in the same manner as other testimony and in light of other testimony and circumstances in the case. The jury alone determines what weight to give the evidence, and may reject it or accept all or any part of it they it believes to be true. Robertson v. State, 304 Ark. 332 , 802 S.W.2d 448 (1991); Gruzen v. State, 267 Ark. 380 , 591 S.W.2d 342 (1979).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. State · Williams v. State“(a) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution that at the time the defendant engaged in the conduct charged, he lacked capacity, as a result of mental illness or defect, to conform his conduct to the requirements of law or to appreciate the criminality of his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips 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.