523 So. 2d 140 - White v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2007
6 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 Hitchcock v. Dugger · McDougall v. North Carolina · Smith v. North Carolina · Knapp v. Cardwell · 514 So. 2d 354 - King 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he charge which may have limited the jury to a consideration of statutory mitigating circumstance was clearly harmless.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is permissible to impose different sentences on capital co-defendants where their various degrees of participation and culpability are different from one another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mills v. Singletary“While this is fortunate for him [Di-Marino], it does not require the reduction of White's sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.