Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2011
6 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 Patterson v. New York · State v. Reuter · Lower v. Wallick · Ward v. State · Sedelbauer 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person who knowingly or intentionally fails to provide support to the person’s dependent child commits nonsupport of a child, a Class D felony.... (d) It is a defense that the accused person was unable to provide support. 2”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person who, being able, intentionally fails to provide support to his dependent child commits....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Barber“affirmative defense that establishes separate and distinct facts in mitigation of culpability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Barber
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.