Claxton Council Davis v. L. C. McAllister and Jim Smith, Attorney General’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.2d 1256 · 1980
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Ford v. Strickland (1983)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Burks v. United States · Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · 365 So. 2d 701 - Castor 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“examine the entire charge and determine whether, taken as a whole, the issues and law presented to the jury were adequate.”
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.