Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 1952
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was error to permit the district attorney to contradict and impeach the appellant and his wife upon a collateral matter, as was done by the testimony of the two Carter witnesses. The rule, which forbids a witness to be impeached upon a collateral matter, and the sound and just reasons on which that' rule is founded, have been so fully, frequently and recently discussed and announced by this court that a statement of the fact is sufficient to demonstrate the error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker 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.