State v. Whitmore’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murray v. Carrier · Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight · Rogers v. First National Bank of Peoria · Samarzia v. Clark County · River Road Alliance Inc v. Corps of Engineers of United States Army
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] motion for postconvietion relief cannot be used as a substitute for an appeal or to secure a further review of issues already litigated on direct appeal or which were known to the defendant and counsel at the time of the trial and which were capable of being raised, but were not raised, in the defendant’s direct appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitmore v. Avery
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.