Whitlock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1995
15 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 2 Smith & H. 633 - Keller v. State · Mullendore v. State · 1 Smith & H. 7 - Copeland v. State · Holder v. State · Wade 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... supplying heroin is malum in se. That act supplies the requisite criminal intent to render one guilty of murder in the second degree whether or not death was the natural and probable result of the act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Randolph“(a)n act involving illegality from the very nature of the transaction, upon principles of natural, moral, and public law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Davis
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.