State v. Whittaker’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably State v. Lewis (1999), 513 So. 2d 849 - State v. Wiley (1987)
29 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 445 So. 2d 1203 - State v. Rault · 445 So. 2d 1190 - State v. Davenport · 351 So. 2d 1174 - State v. Elzie · 306 So. 2d 703 - State v. Freeman
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 441. Relevant evidence defined: facts admissible Relevant evidence is that tending to show the commission of the offense and the intent, or tending to negative the commission of the offense and the intent. Facts necessary to be known to explain a relevant fact, or which support an inference raised by such fact, are admissible.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White · State v. Hodges“Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, a rational trier of fact could have found defendant guilty of second degree murder. The evidence excludes every reasonable hypothesis of innocence. State v. Whittaker, 463 So.2d 1270, 1273 (La.1985).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whittaker“Evidence is relevant which makes any fact indicating guilt or innocence more or less probable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.