Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Livingston v. State (1987), Moody v. State (1992)
32 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 Hankins v. State · Cerda v. State · Appleman v. State · Marks v. State · Hernandez 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere presence of defendant, RAUL GUERRERO ROSILLO, at the shooting, if any, would not constitute him a party to the offense charged, and if you should find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that LIBRADO HERNANDEZ or HERIBERTO LOPEZ or AUGUSTINE HERNANDEZ or an UNKNOWN ASSAILANT did then and there intentionally or knowingly kill the said Reynaldo Galvan Leal by shooting him with a firearm, as aforesaid, but you further find and believe from the evidence, or you have a reasonable doubt thereof, that the defendant, RAUL GUERRERO ROSILLO, did not act with intent to promote or assist the commission of the said offense of shooting and killing Reynaldo Galvan Leal, if any, by aiding LIBRADO HERNANDEZ OR HERIBERTO LOPEZ OR AUGUSTINE HERNANDEZ or AN UNKNOWN ASSAILANT in the commission of said offense, then you will find defendant, RAUL GUERRERO ROSILLO, not guilty of murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In ruling upon the admissibility of evidence, the judge shall not discuss or comment upon the weight of the same or its bearing in the case, but shall simply decide whether or not it is admissible; nor shall he, at any stage of the proceeding previous to the return of the verdict, make any remark calculated to convey to the jury his opinion of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Becknell v. State · Owens v. State“Let's have all your money. Let's have it now,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayfield v. State
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.