State v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Myrick v. James (1982), State v. Crocker (1981)
2 district · 41 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 National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · United States v. Harriss · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Winters v. People of State of New York · Hebert v. State of Louisiana
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have previously noted: Legislation should not be held invalid on the ground of uncertainty, if susceptible of any reasonable construction that will support it. When the language of an act appears on its face to have a generalized meaning, and from the nature of the subject matter lends itself to precise or intelligible application in the circumstances under which the Legislature intended it to operate, the courts are obliged to sustain the same as constitutionally valid by giving it that reasonable construction which men of common intelligence would readily ascribe to the legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thibodeau““Whoever sells, exchanges, delivers, barters, gives or furnishes or possesses with intent to sell, exchange, deliver, barter, give or furnish Cannabis, Mescaline or Peyote, to any person shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or by both, for the first offense; and for a 2nd or subsequent offense, by imprisonment for not less than 2 years nor more than 10 years, for which the imposition or execution of such sentence shall not be suspended and probation not be granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker““THE GRAND JURY CHARGES: That on or about the Twentieth day of September, 1975, in the City of Portland, County of Cumberland and State of Maine, the above named defendant, Stephen Blais, did strike, hit, touch and do violence to one Pentti K. Hiatalahti, in a wanton, willful, angry and insulting manner, and your Grand Jury further alleges that said assault and battery was of a high and aggravated nature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blais
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.