United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 62 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2017
11 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Lane v. Peterson · Herring v. New York · Adair v. United States · Miller v. Briggs
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision respecting closing argument, like many other trial decisions, is a matter of trial strategy. The strategic choice may be even more acute in a bench trial as counsel assesses the judge’s reaction to the evidence. Counsel’s opting to forego argument in a bench trial and to refrain from objecting to the court’s suggestion that arguments were not necessary appears to fit quite comfortably within the general parameters of strategic trial choices.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the evidence is sufficient to justify the trial judge, as trier of the facts, in concluding beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Given the difficulty of determining the prejudicial impact of the failure to afford summation, the denial of a request for it is reversible error per se.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lake 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.