Davis v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 5 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Newlon v. Missouri (1982), Russ' Kwik Car Wash, Inc. v. Marathon Petroleum Co. (1985)
68 federal appellate · 5 district · 56 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Godfrey v. Georgia · Drake v. Zant Westbrook · Cissna v. Amman
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind, or an aggravated battery to the victim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hardy v. Georgia
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.