State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1993 · most notably 101 Wash. 2d 772 - State v. Coe (1984), United States v. Atkins (1973)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 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 Hyde v. United States · Hyde v. United States · State v. Edwards · State v. Craft · State v. Johnstone
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Reasonable" and "substantial" are not synonymous, as can be seen by referring to any of the standard dictionaries. The point was well put by counsel in argument recently where he pointed out that if one had to undergo a serious operation and were querying the doctor as to the prospects for a successful outcome, how differently the person would feel if the doctor told him there was only a reasonable chance of success as opposed to being told there was a substantial chance of success.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“been frequently raised and found not meritorious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lovell
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.