Davis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
357 F.2d 438 · 1966
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Polizzi (1974), United States v. Bright (1980)
58 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1992 · 18 U.S.C. § 3481 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Griffin v. California · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Russell v. United States · United States v. Debrow · Hartman v. United States
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The facts and circumstances of each case must be carefully analyzed to determine ‘whether the language used was manifestly intended or was of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify.’ ””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is important to observe that the rule does not prohibit all comment on testimony or evidence which stands uncontradicted, and the right to make such statements is well established....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. State“have your people . . . testify if you want them to”
1 later decision 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.