White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Wiggins v. State (1991), Hunt v. Nuth (1995)
2 district · 24 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 Pulley v. Harris · Baskett v. United States · Jones v. Howard · Bottoson v. Florida · Copeland v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [T]he defendant contends the trial judge erred in denying the defendant’s motion that the trial judge include the sentence of life without parole as an available sentencing alternative. In support of his motion, the defendant filed a written waiver of any objection to the imposition of such a sentence, and testified that he knowingly waived “any ex post facto argument” concerning imposition of penalty. Judge Turnbull ruled that he had no authority to impose a sentence not permitted by law, and that the defendant could not confer that authority upon him by consent or waiver. He was correct.... Imposing the requested sentence in this case would be illegal, (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeLeon v. State“Collins maintains that the trial court erred in denying counsel’s motion to have life without the possibility of parole considered as a sentencing alternative____ We rule the life without parole sentencing option is only available for offenses occurring after the effective date of the provision, July 1, 1987. Ch. 237, Laws of 1987. The instant offense occurred prior to the effective date. Therefore, Collins’ argument regarding a statutory right to the life without parole sentencing option has no merit, (citations omitted) (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeLeon v. State“"stripped of any consideration of which party has a burden, and viewed solely from the perspective of weighing the various circumstances which are before the trier of fact, the requirement remains that the aggravating circumstances must outweigh the mitigating circumstances, and not vice versa."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woodson 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.