State v. Willhite’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1984
13 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 v. Spaulding · State v. Winters · State v. Bailey · State v. Phelps · State v. Howland
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"And where an attempt has been made to give an accused a preliminary examination and he has been given reasonable notice, by the papers and proceedings in the case, of the nature and character of the offense charged, the examination has served its principal purpose and is ordinarily regarded as sufficient. [Citations].” (pp. 522, 523.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not necessary that there should be the same formality or strict compliance with procedure and the rules of evidence in a preliminary examination as upon the final trial of the accused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cremer
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.