Davis v. Traub’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Baird v. State (1977), State v. Gallegos (2009)
2 federal appellate · 62 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 State Ex Rel. Anaya v. Scarborough · State v. Hill · State v. Revere · Commonwealth v. Harris · 347 F. Supp. 743 - United States v. Isaacs
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. The grand jury has evolved to where it now functions as a guardian of the citizens’ right to be free from government harassment unless good cause is shown for attempting a prosecution. The grand jury is not, and should not be, the tool of the prosecuting authority to manipulate at will. .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f all the defendants indicted by the grand jury are required to go to trial with these issues undecided serious miscarriages of justice may occur and expensive and needless jury trials take place causing useless expense to the taxpayers and subjecting the relator and other accused to fruitless and unnecessary trials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bent“The record of the proceeding would not reflect the full import of the situation, i.e. the raised eyebrows, the tone of voice, the questioning glance[,] etc.”
1 later decision 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.