State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably State v. Williams (1983), State v. Davis (1982)
54 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Woodson v. North Carolina · State v. Waddell · State v. Thompson · State v. Propst
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For a burning to be ‘wilful and malicious’ in the law of arson, it must simply be done ‘voluntarily and without excuse or justification and without any bona fide claim of right. An intent or animus against either the property itself or its owner is not an element of the offense’ of common law arson.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Arson is defined at common law as the `willful and malicious burning of the dwelling house of another person.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Specific intent is not an essential element of the crime of common-law arson.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.