512 So. 2d 1291 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State (1995), 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994)
41 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Irvin v. Dowd · Eddings v. Oklahoma · McCleskey v. Kemp · 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of mitigating circumstances of an unlimited nature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is highly unusual for a defense counsel to cite the existence of another prison sentence as a mitigating factor (indeed, we have never heard of it being done before),”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he sentencer cannot be precluded from considering as a mitigating factor, any aspect of a defendant's character of record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blue 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.