620 So. 2d 152 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018
7 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 Doerr v. Doerr · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Espinosa v. Florida · 619 So. 2d 261 - Thompson v. State · Beltran-Lopez v. Florida
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facts are so indicative of the aggravating factor `heinous, atrocious, or cruel' that we are convinced upon review that there is no reasonable possibility that the faulty instruction contributed to the sentence”
2 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.