Whitwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably State v. Carter (1986), Howard v. State (1979)
39 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 Green v. United States · Ex parte Lange · Kepner v. United States · Stroud v. United States · Peek 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statement that certiorari will not issue where either appeal or error goes, though frequently met with in textwrit-ers, and in some reports, is neither strictly true nor accurate. There are marked exceptions. Thus, where the exigencies of the case are such that the ordinary methods of appeal or error may not prove adequate, either in point of promptness or completeness, so that a partial or total failure of justice may result, then certio-rari may issue. (Emphasis supplied). 520 S.W.2d at 342 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Johnson“[W]e think it clear that the common law writ . . . may not be resorted to for the correction of technical or formal errors, not affecting jurisdiction or power, or for the correction of defects that are not radical, amounting to an illegality that is fundamental, as distinguished from an irregularity. (Emphasis supplied). 137 Tenn. at 249 , 192 S.W. at 933.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Johnson“[c]oncealing stolen property is an offense distinct from and independent of receiving stolen property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ramon
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.