Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1925
14 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 Shaufler v. State · Kreigh v. State · Walker v. State · Komblith v. Collins · Cobb 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““First. When any person is in custody on a charge of felony, . and no grand jury is in session. “Second. When an indictment has been found by the grand jury, and has been quashed.” Acts 1879, p. 143.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Iter v. State · Iter v. State““The general mode of prosecution for a felony is by indictment found by a grand jury, and that by affidavit and information is an exceptional mode, confined to a few cases. It was meant by the statutory provision above set out, to authorize a prosecution by affidavit and information for the particular felony on a charge of which the person is in custody, where no grand jury is in session, and not for any other or different felony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice 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.