Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2017
4 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Maynard v. Cartwright · Yagow v. United States · Clemons v. Mississippi · Saffle v. Parks · Stringer v. Black
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing in appellate reweighing of aggravating circumstances is at odds with contemporary standards of fairness or inherently unreliable, and an appellate court may reweigh evidence in the absence of written jury findings concerning mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Battenfield v. State“aggravating circumstance. Appellant's prior conviction of a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person is undisputed. The”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hancock v. State“No testimony indicated that the victims who died were conscious or suffered pain at any time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pavatt v. Royal
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.