505 So. 2d 1303 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2023
12 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 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · 391 So. 2d 133 - Dolvin v. State · 435 So. 2d 158 - Smith v. State · 468 So. 2d 99 - Ex Parte Williams
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person shall not drive or be in actual physical control of any vehicle while . . . [u]nder the influence of alcohol.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In reviewing a conviction based on circumstantial evidence, this court must view that evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution. The test to be applied is whether the jury might reasonably find that the evidence excluded every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt; not whether such evidence excludes every reasonable hypothesis of guilt, but whether a jury might reasonably so conclude. "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`Actual physical control' is defined as the `exclusive physical power, and present ability , to operate, move, park, or direct whatever use or non-use is to be made of the motor vehicle at the moment.' . . . `Actual physical control' is determined by a totality-of-the-circumstances test. Cagle v. City of Gadsden , 495 So.2d 1144 (Ala. 1986)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.