State v. Witherspoon’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 1981
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sanford v. State · 298 So. 2d 376 - State v. Beamon · 71 So. 2d 735 - Bizzell 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present instance, the bill of particulars to the first information was essentially correct and the variance was, at most, a matter of two hours. There is no doubt that the same crime is alleged in each of the informations here filed against the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mayor
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.