White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 1989 · most notably Robinson v. State (1943), Byrd v. State (1952)
50 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 Edwards v. State · Hawes v. State · Storey v. State · Patterson v. State · Ex Parte Cowart
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court has the right to state to the jury the general tendencies of the evidence, or the theories of the defense and of the prosecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is an established principle of law that the defendant has the right to show the general nature and gravity of a previous difficulty, but that be may not relate the details of such difficulty.””
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.