Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1987 · most notably Gray v. State (1970), Des Jardins v. State (1976)
26 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 State v. . Weinstein · United States v. O'Brien · Battaglia v. United States · State v. Drew · People v. Barnes
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it was incumbent upon the state to produce evidence of circumstances which excluded every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt. In other words, the circumstantial evidence had to be such as to exclude every reasonable theory consistent with Davis’ innocence. * * * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Salinas v. State · Watson 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.