State v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1999
24 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 Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · United States v. Becker · State v. Taylor · Kadis v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the issue of entrapment raises questions as to the defendant's state of mind, evidence may be adduced by either side tending to show that state of mind. [Citations omitted]. Thus, the state may introduce evidence as to an existing cause of similar criminal conduct on the part of the defendant, his already formed design to commit crimes of the general nature of that which he is charged, or his willingness to commit the crime as shown by his ready acquiescence in its commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[I]t is an offense of that general character, and not the precise offense as to time, place and persons involved, which must be the subject of inquiry.” State v. Whitney, supra, 249 A.2d at 240 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Matheson
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.