White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Westmoreland v. State (1971), Evans v. State (2005)
25 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 Smith v. State · Gentry 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne who shoots recklessly into a crowd in utter disregard of human life is presumed to intend to kill all or any of the crowd....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ponos v. State“contrary to section 987, Mississippi Code of 1930, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.