State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Wells (2009), Edmonds v. State (2007)
25 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · State v. Feltrop · State v. Storey · State v. Taylor · United States v. Hall
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Adapting the reasoning of the Supreme Court [in State v. Lawhorn] to this case, the fact that police interrogation may be persuasive or coercive does not leave defendant without protection if the trial court denies expert testimony on this topic. Cross-examination is an adequate tool to expose police conduct, and closing argument gives the defendant a forum to further develop his theory that interrogation techniques are coercive. The jury is capable of understanding the reasons why a statement may be unreliable; therefore, the introduction of expert testimony would be ’a superfluous attempt to put the gloss of expertise, like a bit of frosting, upon inferences which lay persons were equally capable of drawing from the evidence.’ [Citations omitted.] “The defendant had a full opportunity to cross-examine the police officers that interrogated him about their techniques. The jury heard testimony regarding the conditions of defendant’s interrogation, the length of time defendant was interrogated, the receipt and waiver of Miranda rights, and the content of the police questions and defendant’s statements. It was reasonable for the trial court to conclude that the jury could decide the issue of the statement’s reliability using its common knowledge. Consequently, the jury would not be aided by Dr. Leo’s testimony.” Davis, 32 S.W.3d at 609 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he prosecutor has unfettered discretion either to prosecute or to nolle pros a case before return of a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when the ruling is clearly against the logic of the cireumstances or when it is arbitrary and unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lauck v. Price
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.