Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably State v. Singleton (1947), State v. Pulliam (1960)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 MacIas v. State · Lawrence v. State · People v. Smith · Reid v. Topper · Lundy 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to constitute the crime of larceny, a felonious taking alone is not sufficient. It must be followed by an asportation or carrying away sufficient to supersede the possession of the owner for an appreciable time. Hence the crime is not complete until there has been an asportation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.