Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2002
8 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 Angrist v. United States · McDougall v. North Carolina · Flamer v. State · Goddard v. State · United States ex rel. Goddard v. Vaughn
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a criminal act was committed while the person committing such an act was in a state of intoxication is no defense to any criminal charge if the intoxication was voluntary.... Under this section of the code, voluntary intoxication is not a defense to any criminal act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDermott v. Bender
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.