White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
October 1968
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. State · Pettit v. State · Rucker v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Appellant had been in the car. It was registered in his name. He had started and then stopped the engine. The keys were in his possession. The jury had the right to infer that whatever was in the locked trunk was in his possession. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pinkston 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.