White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1999
10 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 Gault · In re Oliver · Diggs v. Welch · O'Malley v. United States · Diggs v. Welch
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The criterion employed is that if the conduct of counsel was so incompetent as to deprive his client of a trial in the genuine, sense — making that trial a mockery and a farce. — then the defendant is entitled to a new trial. The ‘mockery and farce’ test is a relatively stringent one. . . . [W]e must consider the entire proceedings and the whole record to decide whether counsel’s conduct fell short of the mark. The only workable standard is to determine whether the proceedings as a whole have a judicial character. Particular errors or claimed errors of counsel are not enough. The proceedings must be so tainted that there was an absence of a genuine trial in any reasonable sense. 8”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Condon 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.