United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 112 · 1973
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. MacDonald (1982), United States v. Cisneros-Gutierrez (2008)
109 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3281 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · Barker v. Wingo · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Wade
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'all practiced trial lawyers are well aware that the attrition from such delay is more damaging to the prosecution's case than to that of the defense. This will be so as long as the prosecution has the burden of proof.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent a showing of extreme prejudice amounting to a Fifth Amendment denial of due process, the commencement of prosecution is controlled exclusively by the applicable statute of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reference to or use by a defendant of an erroneously admitted line of evidence ordinarily cures or waives error.”
1 later decision 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.