467 So. 2d 265 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2019
13 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 434 So. 2d 859 - Alvis v. State · 465 So. 2d 482 - Goans v. State · Nelson v. State · 453 So. 2d 1081 - Caine v. State · 418 So. 2d 964 - Thomas 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]hysical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Injuries sustained by beating the assault victim about the head with fists and the butt of a .25-caliber pistol were deemed to fall outside the statutory definition of `serious physical injury,' by this court in Nelson v. State, 462 So.2d 962 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984), where the victim did not see a doctor until the following morning and the injuries required no stitches. In Alvis v. State, 434 So.2d 859 (Ala.Cr.App.1983), this court reversed the appellant's conviction and held that injuries resulting from a beating to the victim's head and chest did not constitute `serious physical injury,' even though the victim had difficulty breathing, his rib cage was sore, and he coughed up blood. The court noted that the victim `suffered no broken bones, heart damage or other disfiguring injury and was in the hospital two and one-half days merely for observation....' Id. at 862 . See also Caine v. State, 453 So.2d 1081 (Ala.Cr.App.1984) (wherein the court determined that proof of `serious physical injury' was not sustained by evidence that cuts in the robbery victim's mouth prohibited the victim from wearing his dentures or eating solid food for several days).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State“"(A) A person commits the crime of assault in the first degree if: "(1) With intent to cause serious physical injury to another person, he causes serious physical injury to any person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument."”
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.