Whitehead v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2018
19 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 Business Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic Communications Enterprises, Inc. · Prince 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, after the State has filed its return, the application presents questions of law or fact which will require a hearing, the court shall promptly appoint counsel to assist the applicant if he is indigent. Counsel shall be given a reasonable time to confer with the applicant. Counsel shall insure that all available grounds for relief are included in the application and shall amend the application if necessary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hilton v. State · Gary v. State“mandates the appointment of counsel for indigent PCR applicants whenever a PCR hearing is held to determine questions of law or fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mangal v. State · Hilton v. State“the PCR applicant must be made aware of the right to counsel and the dangers of self-representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hilton 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.