Davis v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Davis v. Executive Director of Department of Corrections (1996), Nathan DUNLAP, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant. (2007)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 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 Strickland v. Washington · Darden v. Wainwright · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Kimmelman v. Morrison · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[W]hen faced with overwhelming aggravating circumstances, trial counsel reasonably may conclude that the testimony of certain character witnesses would be of little help to the defense. See Strickland , 466 U.S. at 699 , 104 S.Ct. at 2070 -2071 . This is particularly true if such testimony would open the door to presentation of damaging evidence by the prosecution."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.