State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Williams v. Kaiser (1945), State v. Walton (1990)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Britain v. Rice · Theobald v. St. Louis Transit Co. · State v. Parker · Routt v. State · Gibney v. St. Louis Transit Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere snatching of an article from the person of another, without violence or putting in fear, is not robbery, except where there is some injury or violence to the person of the owner or where the property snatched is so attached to the person or clothes of the owner as to afford resistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Ash“it seems to be now held that sudden snatching of property from a person is not robbery, if there is no struggle and no injury done to the person robbed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams
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.