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← 675 SW2D 410 - State v. Davis

State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
June 2015
most recently cited

19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2015

19 state decisions

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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 City of St. Joseph v. Hankinson · State v. Taylor · State v. Armbruster · State v. Danforth · State v. Thornton

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"The Prosecuting Attorney ... charges the defendant, in violation of Section 568.040, ..., commited the class A misdemeanor of nonsupport, ..., in that between March 9, 1984 and March 9, 1985, ... the defendant knowingly failed to provide, without good cause, adequate food, clothing, lodging and financial support for Tammy Jean Nichols, the defendant’s minor child for whom defendant was legally obligated to provide such support."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Nichols
  2. “'A parent commits the crime of nonsupport if such parent knowingly fails to provide, without good cause, adequate support which such parent is legally obligated to provide for his minor child.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Johnson
  3. “imposed by law and cannot be `bargained away' nor escaped through the `device of contracting and not performing.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Interest of RAS

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.