Whitfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 1982
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Moore v. State · Kendrick v. Kendrick · 102 Ga. App. 790 - Curtis v. State · Manor v. State · 92 Ga. App. 463 - Teague v. Adair Realty & Loan Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A commitment hearing is a valuable right which the law gives to one accused of crime,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scarbrough v. Dutton
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.