Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2017
13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 232nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Ex Parte Duffy · Ingham v. State · Ex Parte Cruz · Cannon 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ A] court deciding an actual ineffectiveness claim must judge the reasonableness of counsel’s challenged conduct on the facts of the particular case, viewed as of the time of counsel’s conduct. A convicted defendant making a claim of ineffective assistance must identify the acts or omissions of counsel that are alleged not to have been the result of reasonable professional judgment. The court must then determine whether, in light of all the circumstances, the identified acts or omissions were outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kucel v. State“[a] prosecutor may freely draw inferences from the evidence as long as they are reasonable, fair, legitimate, and offered in good faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adair v. State“[T]he failure to object to argument that is not improper does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McMillan 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.