Whitmore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Whitmore v. Arkansas (1990), Abdullah v. State (1990)
3 federal appellate · 46 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 Strickland v. Washington · Furman v. Georgia · Rees v. Peyton · Griffin v. Texas · Gilmore v. Utah
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“limit or narrow post-conviction relief by abolishing [Arkansas] Criminal Procedure Rule 37.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dawan v. Al Lockhart“for the purpose of avoiding or preventing an arrest or effecting an escape from custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of avoiding or preventing an arrest,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.