Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1978
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.
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.
““The general rule that where two are jointly indicted for the same offense, it not being in its nature a joint offense, the jury may acquit one and convict the other, or disagree as to the other is, of course, admitted. That is a mere rule of pleading and practice. They may, but when? Only when the evidence warrants it. They may believe one witness and disbelieve another; they may accept circumstances against positive testimony; where there is the slightest difference in the testimony as between the two, they weighing that testimony may make the difference.- But in a case like this, where the whole testimony is that of a single witness in every particular the same against one as the other, it is not legally possible that a verdict which distinguishes is a response to the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Haynes
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.