State v. Whiteman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably White v. Burns (1990), State v. Hinton (1993)
65 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 Daily v. New Britain Machine Co. · Vilcinskas v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Rhodes v. City of Hartford · State v. Kozlowski · State v. Crawford
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n areas where the legislature has spoken ... the primary responsibility for formulating public policy must remain with the legislature,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is not the function of courts to read into clearly expressed legislation provisions [that] do not find expression in its words”
3 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.