Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably 33 Cal. 4th 382 - People v. Brown (2004), Bivins v. State (1995)
49 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Witt · Griffith v. Kentucky · Payne v. Tennessee · Rideout v. United States
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[a] claim of ineffective assistance must identify the claimed errors of counsel, so that the court may determine whether, in light of all circumstances, the counsel's actions were outside the range of professionally competent assistance. The proper measure of attorney performance is reasonableness under prevailing professional norms. It shall be strongly presumed that counsel rendered adequate assistance and made all significant decisions in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment. Judicial serutiny of counsel's performance is highly deferential and should not be exercised through the distortions of hindsight. Isolated poor strategy, inexperience, or bad tactics do not necessarily amount to inecffee-tiveness of counsel."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hogan v. State · Lawson v. State“crimes [are] so strikingly similar that one can say with reasonable certainty that one and the same person committed them?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Camm v. State · Garland v. State“[t]here need be no ritualistic adherence to a requirement that a prospective juror make it unmistakably clear that he or she would automatically vote against the imposition of capital punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dye 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.