397 So. 2d 1005 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2018
11 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 365 So. 2d 701 - Castor v. State · First Commerce Realty Investors v. Peninsular Title Ins. Co. · Delaney v. State · 287 So. 2d 73 - State v. Bryan · 359 So. 2d 864 - Henry 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A party may attack the credibility of any witness, including an accused, by evidence that the witness has been convicted of a crime if the crime was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of 1 year under the law under which he was convicted . .. . [Emphasis added.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Have you ever been convicted of a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year under the law in which you were convicted?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. King v. State · Bobb v. State“easily create an inference in the minds of jurors that a defendant had been previously convicted of a capital crime when in fact, he may have been convicted of only a minor felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bobb 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.