Davidson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Brown v. State (1986), Blain v. State (1983)
44 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 Denham v. State · Limuel v. State · Williams v. State · McElroy v. State · Hart 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or (B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nunfio v. State · Soto v. State“A knife is not a deadly weapon per se. Williams v. State, 575 S.W.2d 30 (Tex.Cr. App.1979); Limuel v. State, 568 S.W.2d 309 (Tex.Cr.App.1978). It can qualify as a deadly weapon by showing the manner of its use, its size and shape, and its capacity to produce death or serious bodily injury. Denham v. State, 574 S.W.2d 129 (Tex.Cr.App.1978); McElroy v. State, 528 S.W.2d 831 (Tex.Cr.App.1975). * * * * * * Even though there was proof of the knife's size, we find as in Alvarez , that the evidence in the present case is insufficient to show that the defendant used or intended to use the knife so as to inflict serious bodily harm or death. See Harris v. State, 562 S.W.2d 463 (Tex.Cr.App. 1978), and cases there discussed. Cf. Dominique v. State, 598 S.W.2d 285 (Tex. Cr.App.1980). The evidence is therefore insufficient to show that the appellant used or exhibited a "deadly weapon," thereby committing aggravated robbery as alleged in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. State“particularly useful in supplementing meager evidence on the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re SB
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.