Weatherbed v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Neal v. State (2012), Funderburk v. State (2003)
27 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 Collins v. State · Hayes v. State · Pruitt v. State · Darden v. Ravan · State v. Thornton
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll cases in which a sentence of death was imposed or could be imposed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Neal v. State · State v. Murray“The district attorney did not give timely notice to the defense that the state intended to seek the death penalty, ... and for this reason this is not a case "in which a sentence of death was imposed or could be imposed." ... Hence, this appeal was filed properly in the Court of Appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Murray“[W]hen a trial court enters a judgment where it does not have jurisdiction, such judgment is a mere nullity; but an appeal from such an illegal judgment will not be dismissed but instead, the void judgment will be reversed. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scroggins 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.