United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 190 · 1978
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Mu'Min v. Virginia (1991), United States v. Bermea (1994)
121 federal appellate · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 22 U.S.C. § 1934 · 22 U.S.C. § 2778
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Burks v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court should have determined what in particular each juror had heard or read and how it affected his attitudes toward the trial, and should have determined for itself whether any juror's impartiality had been destroyed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The juror is poorly placed to make a determination as to his own impartiality.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an act [that] was done voluntarily and intentionally and not because of a mistake or by accident”). But in any event, district courts are not required to use this Court’s pattern jury instructions,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.