State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2020
9 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Gideon v. Wainwright · Teague v. Lane · Schriro Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Summerlin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o ensure some finality in criminal cases, we typically apply [ ] new rules retroactively only to cases on direct review, rather than allow endless collateral attacks on convictions or sentences as new rules emerge, despite courts' compliance with the constitutional standards of the day.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[g]enerally, new rules of criminal procedure are not applied retroactively on collateral review because unlike new substantive rules, they do not produce a class of wrongly convicted individuals”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robertson“[W]hen a decision interprets a statute for the first time, it does not establish a new rule but merely clarifies and enforces prior law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.