State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably American Universal Insurance v. DelGreco (1987), Sherwood v. Danbury Hospital (2000)
119 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Jordan v. De George · Kahn v. Grant
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the language of the statute is plain and unambiguous, we need look no further than the words themselves because we assume that the language expresses the legislature's intent.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is not necessary, however, that a statute list the precise conduct prohibited or required . . . It is recognized that the law may be general in nature . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is necessary ... that the enabling statute declare legislative policy, establish primary standards or lay down an intelligible principle to which the administrative officer or body must conform. If the legislature fails to prescribe the limits of the power delegated with reasonable clarity, or the power is too broad, its attempt to delegate is a nullity.”
2 later decisions 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.