684 So. 2d 643 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Evans v. State (1997), 954 So. 2d 968 - Ross v. State (2007)
113 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 Payne v. Tennessee · Gardner v. Florida · Lowenfield v. Phelps · Mills v. Maryland · Clemons v. Mississippi
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e direct without equivocation that court reporters should never fail to preserve for record at-the-bench or chambers conferences following objections ... The trial judge is responsible to enforce this directive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Counsel may not sit idly by making no protest as objectionable evidence is admitted, and then raise the issue for the first time on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The prosecutor] may comment upon any facts introduced into evidence. He may draw whatever deductions seem to him proper from these facts, so long as he does not use violent and abusive language, and even in many cases incentives may be justified and even called for, as pointed out by Chief Justice Whitfield in Gray v. State, 90 Miss. 235 , 43 So. 289 [1907].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State · Evans 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.