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494 So. 2d 851 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
2
states following
May 2014
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably State v. Luster (2006), 551 So. 2d 1094 - Bui v. State (1988)

34 state decisions

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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 Griffin v. California · Berger v. United States · United States v. Young · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Dunlop v. United States

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “When the door is opened by defense counsel's argument, it swings wide, and a number of areas barred to prosecutorial comment will suddenly be subject to reply.”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hooks v. State · 574 So. 2d 1037 - Blackmon v. State
  2. “It is, of course, the duty of every prosecutor to represent the interests of the state zealously, vigorously, and earnestly. His 'responsibility [as] a public prosecutor differs from that of the usual advocate; [his] duty is not merely to convict, but also to protect the innocent.' EC7-13, Alabama Code of Professional Responsibility.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 505 So. 2d 1265 - Fairchild v. State · 868 So. 2d 1128 - Stallworth v. State
  3. “"`Availability' is determined first by testing the other party's superior knowledge of the existence and identity of the absent witness; second, by the question of whether the relationship between the absent witness and the other party would reasonably be expected to bias the witness's testimony toward the other party."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Drayton v. State · 767 So. 2d 1123 - Ballards 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.