Whatley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 1979 · most notably Andrews v. State (1909), Phillips v. Ashworth (1929)
43 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 Gilmore v. State · Mann v. State · Price v. State · White v. State · Avery 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was proper to permit the State to show how long the defendant kept company with the witness. He was charged with having seduced her upon a promise of marriage, and their relationship and conduct toward each other was a proper element for the consideration of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. . Moody
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.