Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 180 WVA 553 - State v. Whitt

State v. Whitt’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
September 2019
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · 178 W. Va. 10 - Kennedy v. Frazier · 199 F. Supp. 569 - Tremblay v. Overholser

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.

  1. “Because the entrapment in this case does not amount to a question of law, the trial court should not have substituted his weighing of the alternatives for Mr. Whitt’s properly counseled weighing of the same alternatives.”
    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.