Whitney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1965
12 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 People v. . Heineman · Agar v. State · Luther v. State · Kahn v. State · Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York v. Jasper Furniture Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary on appeal that the evidence should show the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in order for it to be sufficient to sustain the judgment. All that is required on appeal is that there shall be some evidence sustaining every material allegation of the affidavit or indictment and in determining whether a verdict or finding is sustained by sufficient evidence this Court will not weigh conflicting evidence, but will consider only that tending to support the judgment. A judgment will not be reversed for insufficiency of evidence unless there is a total lack of evidence to support some essential element of the offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arrington v. State
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.