Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2011
16 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Geesa v. State · Royster v. State · Soria v. United States · Miniel 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did then and there intentionally or knowingly threaten to harm in person, another, to-wit: Jose Viegra, by an unlawful act, to-wit: threats of assault or bodily injury, in retaliation for or on account of the service of the said Jose Viegra as a prospective witness; then you will find the defendant guilty of the offense of retaliation and so say by your verdict. But, if you do not so believe, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will acquit the defendant and say by your verdict "not guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“On July 1, 1992, George Lott shot and killed two people and wounded three others in the courtroom of the Fort Worth Court of Appeals.”). An article in the USA Today newspaper details a shooting in an Atlanta, Georgia, courtroom killing four persons, including the judge, and chronicles other courtroom tragedies. Larry Copeland, I Could Tell He Was Going to Shoot Everybody,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ziolkowski v. State“A person commits an offense if he threatens to commit any offense involving violence to any person ... With intent to: place any person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coward 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.