State v. Waitus’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1986
16 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 Norris v. State of Alabama · Cassell v. Texas · Fay v. People of State of New York Bove · Akins v. Texas · Hill v. State of Texas
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is certainly no denial of the equal protection of the laws in any of the foregoing constitutional or statutory provisions. Franklin v. South Carolina , 218 U.S. 161 , 30 S.Ct. 640 , 54 L.Ed. 980 ; State v. Middleton, supra , 207 S.C. 478 , 36 S.E. (2d) 742 .”
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.