Whatley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Singh (2002), Mullins v. State (1999)
2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Witt · Harper v. State · William Duane Elledge v. Richard L. Dugger · Jarrell 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he state’s questions about whether other witnesses were lying merely emphasized the conflict in the evidence, which it was the jury’s duty to resolve, and the trial court properly charged the jurors [regarding the determination of witness credibility]. Tucker v. State, 228 Ga. App. 321, 324 (2) ( 491 SE2d 420 ) (1997), quoting Little v. State, 194 Ga. App. 361, 362 (2) ( 390 SE2d 445 ) (1990); see also Dorsey v. State, 259 Ga. 809 (3) ( 387 SE2d 889 ) (1990) (the state may challenge the defendant’s truthfulness on cross-examination by asking defendant if other witnesses are lying).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]efore a juror can be disqualified for cause, it must be shown that an opinion held by the potential juror is so fixed and definite that the juror will be unable to set the opinion aside and decide the case based upon the evidence or the court’s charge upon the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“Once a procedure has been recognized in a substantial number of courts, a trial judge may judicially notice, without receiving evidence, that the procedure has been established with verifiable certainty, or that it rests upon the laws of nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pace 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.