551 So. 2d 165 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Foster v. State (1994), 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994)
118 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Griffith v. Kentucky · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Michigan v. Mosley
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“photographs of the victim should not ordinarily be admitted into evidence where the killing is not contradicted or denied, and the corpus delicti and the identity of the deceased have been established.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the accused was laboring under such defect of reason from disease of the mind as (1) not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or (2) if he did know it, that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“As long as the judge applies the correct legal standards, his decision will not be reversed on appeal unless it is manifestly in error, or is contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCarty v. State · Foster 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.