Davis v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
675 F.2d 141 · 1982
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 102 Ill. 2d 23 - People v. Caballero (1984), United States v. Mealy (1988)
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Townsend v. Sain · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Cupp v. Naughten · Taylor v. Louisiana · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so unequivocally strong that [the] failure to give the instruction amounted to a fundamental miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nichols v. Gagnon“[y]oung people between the ages of 18 and 21 ... are not a cognizable group or class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient specificity to clarify the jury's problem.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDowell v. Calderon
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.