Davis v. Minnesota’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Miller-El v. Dretke (2005), 28 Cal. 4th 703 - People v. Cash (2002)
16 federal appellate · 36 state decisions — followed in 11 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
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Lewis v. United States · Larson v. Valente · Brown v. North Carolina
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indeed, given the Court's [prior decisions], no principled reason immediately appears for declining to apply Batson to any strike based on a classification that is accorded heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a category which presumably would include classifications based on religion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.