Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2024
10 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 11 Okla. Crim. 471 - Moody v. State · 79 Okla. Crim. 1 - Smith v. State · 69 Okla. Crim. 31 - Ponkilla v. State · Davis v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person who, with intent to do bodily harm and without justifiable or excusable cause, commits any assault and battery upon the person of another with any sharp or dangerous weapon, or who, without such cause, shoots or attempts to shoot at another, with any kind of firearms or air gun or other means whatever, with intent to injure any person, although without intent to kill such person or to commit any felony, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five (5) years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one (1) year."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Every person who intentionally and wrongfully shoots, shoots at, or attempts to shoot at, another with any kind of firearm, airgun or. other means whatever, with intent to kill any person, or zvho commits any assault and battery upon another by means of any deadly weapon, or by such other means or force as is likely to produce death, or in any manner attempts to kill another, or in resisting the execution of any legal process, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding twenty (20) years.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pettigrew v. State““The court then, after hearing the evidence does not find that the crime of Shooting with Intent to Kill has been committed, but instead, does find that the crime of Assault and Battery With A Deadly Weapon after prior conviction has been committed and that there is probable cause to believe the defendant, Willis Bates, is guilty thereof, we will order that he be held for trial on the charge of Assault and Battery With A Dangerous Weapon After Former Conviction.” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bates v. State
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.