State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably State v. Thomas (1978), State v. Stone (1988)
44 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. Stephens · State v. Cutler · State v. Rowland · State v. Miller · State v. Thompson
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The evidence was] sufficient to raise a strong suspicion of the defendant’s guilt but not sufficient to remove that issue from the realm of suspicion and conjecture. It may reasonably be inferred that the defendant was at the home of the deceased when the deceased came to his death, or shortly thereafter. However, it is not enough to defeat the motion for nonsuit that the evidence establishes that the defendant had an opportunity to commit the crime charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he deceased was found in his home stabbed through the heart, lying in a pool of blood. Blood was found throughout the house and inside the defendant’s abandoned pickup truck parked nearby. The defendant was seen driving his truck up the lane to the deceased’s house on the morning of the murder. Later the same morning, the defendant appeared at the home of his uncle intoxicated and “bloody as a hog.” The defendant had a bad gash on his head. The defendant’s knife blade was bloody and a hair stuck in the blood on the knife was similar to the chest hair of the deceased. An expert testified that the blood under the deceased’s body and the blood inside the defendant’s truck came from different persons. The blood on the defendant’s clothing was identified as the same type as that taken from the truck. The blood on the knife was human blood but could not be typed. The defendant told his uncle that “Joe [the deceased] had killed himself.” Defendant was taken by a neighbor to the hospital and, en route, told the neighbor he “would rather get a pint of liquor and go back and see how Joe was than go to the doctor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is elementary that, upon a motion for judgment as of nonsuit in a criminal case, the evidence must be considered by the court in the light most favorable to the State. Where there are contradictions and discrepancies in the evidence, these must be resolved in the State’s favor and the State must be given the benefit of every reasonable inference arising on the evidence. . . . . . . The test of the sufficiency of the evidence to withstand a nonsuit motion is the same whether the evidence is circumstantial, direct or both. . . . ‘When the motion for nonsuit calls into question the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence, the question for the court is whether a reasonable inference of defendant’s guilt may be drawn from the circumstances. If so, it is for the jury to decide whether the facts, taken singly or in combination, satisfy them beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is actually guilty.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riddick
How this case has been treated — in progress
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