Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 54 Cal. 3d 411 - People v. Webster (1991), State v. Beaty (1988)
30 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 · Lockett v. Ohio · Zant v. Stephens · Jurek v. Texas · Proffitt v. Florida
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“watching, waiting, and concealment from the person killed with the intent to kill or inflict bodily injury upon that person.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here was not a sufficient connection between the concealment and the murder ... to support a finding that this murder was committed `by lying in wait.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“] as it is used in the death penalty statute, we have repeatedly found that the phrase”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson · Hall 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.