Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 1984 · most notably Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Falvey (1885), Parrish v. State (1903)
39 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Creek v. State · People v. Douglass · State v. Prescott · Borden v. State · State v. Bullard
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every day's experience must satisfy us that it is impossible to lay down a rule as to how much can be drank without impairing the qualification of a juror for discharging the trust confided in him ... [TJhe only safe rule is to exclude [alcohol] entirely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schultz v. Valle
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.