State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Henley (2018), 291 Or. App. 124 - State v. Roberts (2018)
123 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.
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“little likelihood that the error affected the jury's verdict.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Oregon's constitutional test for affirmance despite error consists of a single inquiry: Is there little likelihood that the particular error affected the verdict?”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"If the supreme court shall be of opinion, after consideration of all the matters thus submitted, that the judgment of the court appealed from was such as should have been rendered in the case, such judgment shall be affirmed, not-withstanding any error committed during the trial[.]"”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.