State v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Wilson (1985), State v. Kinch (1985)
118 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. Powell · Beal v. Franklin · State v. Irick · State v. Bush · State v. Myers
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here evidence is admitted over objection, and the same evidence has been previously admitted or is later admitted without objection, the benefit of the objection is lost.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under certain circumstances a witness may be impeached by proof of prior conduct or statements which are inconsistent with the witness's testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As to felony murder, I charge that for you to find the defendant guilty of first degree murder under the first degree felony murder rule, the State must prove four elements beyond a reasonable doubt. First, that the defendant discharged a firearm into occupied property. As a definition of discharging a firearm into occupied property, the willful or wanton and intentional discharge of a firearm into a vehicle which is occupied when the defendant knew that the vehicle was occupied by one or more persons is discharging a firearm into occupied property. The second element, that while discharging a firearm into occupied property, the defendant killed the victim with a deadly weapon. The third element, that the defendant’s act was a proximate cause of the victim’s death. A proximate cause is a real cause, a cause without which the victim’s death would not have occurred. And fourth, that the discharging a firearm into the occupied property was committed by the use of a deadly weapon, firearm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alford
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.