Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably State v. Larimore (2000), Sanford v. State (1998)
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 Swint v. Chambers County Commission · Misskelley v. State · Weger v. State · Stewart v. State · Taylor 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Error coram nobis is a rare remedy. It is available only where there is an error of fact extrinsic to the record, such as insanity at the time of trial, a coerced guilty plea or material evidence withheld by the prosecutor, that might have resulted in a different verdict. Taylor v. State, 303 Ark. 586 , 799 S.W.2d 519 (1990). The writ has also been used in case's in which a third party confessed to the crime during the time between conviction and appeal. Smith v. State, 301 Ark. 374 , 784 S.W.2d 595 (1990).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Larimore v. State · Brown v. State“(a) A person commits murder in the first degree if: (1) Acting alone or with one (1) or more other persons, he commits or attempts to commit a felony, and in the course of and in the furtherance of the felony or in immediate flight therefrom, he or an accomplice causes the death of any person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human fife; or (2) With a purpose of causing the death of another person, he causes the death of another person. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matthews v. State“from the first-degree murder statute. Davis, supra . The language formerly used to define first-degree murder, with a slight revision, was converted into a type of capital murder. Here, the crime charged, first-degree murder, does not require proof of circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life. A person acts”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byrd 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.