Whitehead v. Stith’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009
17 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 Wheeler v. United States · Meade v. Commonwealth · White v. Commonwealth · Leahman v. Broughton · 37 W. Va. 565 - State v. Michael
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.
“show[ed] an absolute lack of understanding on his part of the nature of an oath, the duty of a witness, and the consequence of misstating the facts,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. BB v. Com.“it commits a palpable abuse of its discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kentucky v. Stincer
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.