Whatley v. the State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Garza v. State · 273 Ga. App. 850 - Copeland v. State · 211 Ga. App. 80 - Munson v. State · 263 Ga. App. 572 - Evans 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits the offense of kidnapping when such person abducts or steals away another person without lawful authority or warrant and holds such other person against his or her will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deleon v. State“his tip nevertheless may be considered trustworthy if portions of it are sufficiently corroborated by the police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The State v. Perez.“The element of 'abducting or stealing away' ... [is] known as asportation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deleon 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.