State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Mills (1992)
16 federal appellate · 175 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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Calandra · Zant v. Stephens · Proffitt v. Florida · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Grand jury proceedings are secret, and an accused is not entitled to inspect grand jury transcripts either before or during trial unless the ends of justice require it and there is a showing by the defense that a particularized need for disclosure exists which outweighs the need for secrecy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`when the circumstances reveal a probability that the failure to provide the grand jury testimony will deny the defendant a fair trial * * *.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder R.C. 2929.03(F), a * * * three-judge panel may rely upon and cite the nature and circumstances of the offense as reasons supporting its finding that the aggravating circumstances were sufficient to outweigh the mitigating factors.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sowell · State v. Fox
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.