People v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably People v. Aranda (1965), 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly (1976)
151 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado · People v. Ibarra · People v. Mickelson
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the circumstances we need neither view these photographs nor determine whether their admission was prejudicial, for it appears on the face of the record that the trial court prima facie abused its discretion as a matter of law in failing to weigh the probative value of the photographs in resolving a material issue as against the danger of prejudice to the defendant through needless arousal of the passions of the jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When defendant testified, however, the only substantial evidence that had been introduced connecting him with the crime was his statement and diagram [given to the police in violation of Escobedo]. His testimony was therefore impelled by the erroneous admission of that evidence and cannot be segregated therefrom to sustain the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gafford v. State“When defendant testified, however, the only substantial evidence that had been introduced connecting him with the crime was his statement. ... His testimony was therefore impelled by the erroneous admission of that evidence and cannot be segregated therefrom to sustain the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Luker
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.