Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2013
6 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 Jordan v. State · Rowley v. State · Townsend v. State · Moore v. State · Williams 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By calling attention to the defendant's alleged admission and pointing out that there was no claim to the contrary, the prosecutor indirectly brings to the jury's attention the fact that Davis did not deny this allegation. Davis was the only one who could have denied that this statement was made since only he and Officer Kaszas were present at the time. Thus, a reasonable jury could have taken that comment as an invitation to consider Davis' failure to testify as an infer ence of guilt. We conclude that the prosecutor's comments were improper.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The prosecutor highlighted the fact that C.R.’s testimony was the only evidence before the jury and then explicitly referred to Owens by name and directly compared his knowledge to C.R.’s. We conclude that the jury reasonably could have interpreted the prosecutor’s comment as an invitation to draw an adverse inference from Owens’s failure to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Davis said he took the car. There is nothing to controvert that. There is no evidence saying that isn't so. There's not even an argument that he didn't say that.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens 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.