604 So. 2d 794 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2017
15 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 Connecticut Performing Arts Foundation, Inc. v. Brown · Benner v. Ohio · Watson v. Louisiana · Smith v. Pennsylvania · 571 So. 2d 415 - Campbell 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it might not be a bad idea to look at [the knife] and think about what it would feel like if it went two inches into your neck”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because we have eliminated two aggravating circumstances, we cannot say beyond a reasonable doubt that the judge would have imposed the death sentence without consideration of those aggravating factors... . We remand the case to the trial judge to reweigh the evidence in light of our opinion and to impose the appropriate sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under the influence of an extreme mental or emotional disturbance”
1 later decision 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.