State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Herring (2002), State v. Ring (2001)
4 federal appellate · 29 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Alford v. United States · Williams v. United States · State v. Bible · Marshall 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“easily outdistanced by White's and [Susan's] premeditated scheme to murder David ... and thereby reap the benefits of his life insurance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Ryan“no clear test under Arizona law as to how a defendant might demonstrate [it].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Ryan“an expectation of pecuniary gain in the most classic sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Ryan
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.