State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Braxton (2000), State v. Barden (2002)
143 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 United States v. Wade · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Wainwright v. Witt · Sandstrom v. Montana · Cupp v. Naughten
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a defendant fails to object to the closing arguments at trial, defendant must establish that the remarks were so grossly improper that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to intervene ex mero motu. “To establish such an abuse, defendant must show that the prosecutor’s comments so infected the trial with unfairness that they rendered the conviction fundamentally unfair.” See State v. Davis, 349 N.C. 1, 23 , 506 S.E.2d 455, 467 (1998), cert. denied, 526 U.S. 1161 , 144 L. Ed. 2d 219 (1999).”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which are (a) rationally based on the perception of the witness and (b) helpful to a clear understanding of his testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`after reviewing the entire record, it can be said the claimed error is a”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.