Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Jones v. State (1996), Fowler v. State (1998)
31 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 Pelaes v. United States · Lawrence v. United States · Polk v. State · Easterling v. State · Boyett 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the jury has 1) found guilt as alleged in the indictment and the deadly weapon has been specifically plead as such using “deadly weapon” nomenclature in the indictment; 2) found guilt as alleged in the indictment but, though not specifically plead as a deadly weapon, the weapon plead is per se a deadly weapon; or 3) affirmatively answered a special issue on deadly weapon use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“And the Juty further finds the following special issue, to-wit: ‘Do you find beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant, JOHNNIE RUSSELL PICK-ENS, used or exhibited a deadly weapon, to-wit: a firearm, during the commission of a felony offense, to-wit: Involuntary Manslaughter. Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. Answer: Yes. /s/ Camille Baker PRESIDING JUROR’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Pickens 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.