State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1996
6 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · State v. Lafferty · State v. Wardwell · State v. Hoffses · State v. Levesque
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[i]t is now well-established law in Maine that the corpus delicti of the crime of unlawful homicide punishable as murder consists of: (1) evidence creating a substantial belief that the identity of the deceased is the person named in the indictment as the victim; (2) evidence creating a substantial belief that the crime charged had been committed by someone.” (Emphasis provided) Id. at 324 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson“the desire to safeguard against the possibility of a confession for an alleged crime not in fact committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Libby
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.