People v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably People v. Taggart (1981), People v. Rubanowitz (1984)
48 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · People v. CALVAREST · People v. McCrary · People v. Sepeda · People v. DelGuidice
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Photographs may be used to graphically portray the seene of a crime, the appearance and condition of the [victim], and any other matters which are competent for a witness to describe in words.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Herrera“[plhotographs are not inadmissible solely because the defendant has stipulated to these matters, or because these matters have been established through the testimony of prosecution witnesses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Herrera“the appearance of the victim, the location and nature of his wounds, or his identity.”
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.