461 So. 2d 67 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Davis v. Florida (1985), Rolling v. State (1997)
1 federal appellate · 73 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Culberson v. Mississippi · Brockett v. Spokane Arcades Inc · Vanderbilt v. Texas
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he juror can lay aside any bias or prejudice and render his [or her] verdict solely upon the evidence presented and the instructions on the law given ... by the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n application for change of venue is addressed to a court's sound discretion, and a trial court's ruling will not be reversed absent a palpable abuse of discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"whether the general state of mind of the inhabitants of a community is so infected by knowledge of the incident and accompanying prejudice, bias, and preconceived opinions that jurors could not possibly put these matters out of their minds and try the case solely on the evidence presented in the courtroom."”
2 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.