State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Green (1994), State v. Syriani (1993)
122 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Wainwright v. Witt · Griffith v. Kentucky · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prospective juror's bias may not always be `provable with unmistakable clarity [and,] [i]n such cases, reviewing courts must defer to the trial court's judgment concerning whether the prospective juror would be able to follow the law impartially.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brogden · State v. Ward“[M]any veniremen simply cannot be asked enough questions to reach the point where their bias has been made”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brogden · State v. Syriani“`prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ward · State v. Rowsey
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.