Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Fred Howland, Inc. v. Morris (1940), 287 So. 2d 1 - State v. Egan (1973)
1 federal appellate · 61 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 Parsons v. State · Spencer v. State · Armstrong v. State · State v. Pagels · People v. . Taylor
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order to constitute the crime of murder, the slayer must have a responsible and sane mind,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the accused was conscious that the act was one which he ought not to do, ánd if that act was at the same time contrary to the law of the land, he is punishable; and the usual course, therefore, has been to leave the question to the jury, whether the party accused had a sufficient degree of reason to know that he was doing an act that was wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stanton 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.