Davis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1,175 federal appellate · 291 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,545 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Stone v. Powell (1976), Rose v. Lundy (1982)
1,175 federal appellate · 291 district · 108 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Davis (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Allen · Sanders v. United States · Hill v. United States · United States v. Hayman
Cited together with Hill v. United States · Teague v. Lane · Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Frady · Bousley v. United States
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 2,545 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exceptional circumstances where the need for the remedy afforded by the writ of habeas corpus is apparent.”
51 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for an act that the law does not make criminal”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and the pertinent statute, 28 U.S.C. § 2255, allows collateral attack on the ground that a person is in custody”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.