State v. Whittington’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2023
14 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 State v. Sherry · State v. Hanks · State v. Puckett · State v. Jones · State v. Bockert
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`deadly weapon,' in the context of aggravated battery, as an instrument which, from the manner in which it is used, is calculated or likely to produce death or serious bodily injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in any manner whereby great bodily harm, disfigurement or death can be inflicted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“causing physical contact with another person when done in a rude, insulting or angry manner with a deadly weapon,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.