White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 1972
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Hamilton v. Alabama · McCall v. State · Frank M. Williams v. State of Alabama · Shellnut 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This day the defendant being now in open Court and it appearing to the Court that the said defendant was duly convicted of said offense on a former day of this term and the said defendant being asked by the Court if he had anything to say why the sentence of the law should not now be pronounced upon him says nothing. “It is therefore considered and adjudged by the Court and it is the judgment and sentence of the Court that the said defendant be imprisoned in the penitentiary of the State of Alabama for a term of 100 years; * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIntyre 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.