532 So. 2d 1207 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Clemons v. Mississippi (1990), 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991)
75 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Neil v. Biggers
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we review the evidence and all reasonable inferences which may be drawn therefrom in the light most consistent with the verdict. We have no authority to disturb the [jury] verdict short of a conclusion on our part that upon the evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, no rational trier of fact could have found the fact at issue beyond a reasonable doubt.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) The defendant actually killed; (b) The defendant attempted to kill; (c) The defendant intended that a killing take place; (d) The defendant contemplated that lethal force would be employed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here, as a part of the pre-crime planning, a defendant includes in his plans the substantial probability that fatal force will be employed ...”
5 later decisions 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.