White v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
December 2002
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Clemons v. Mississippi · 565 So. 2d 1311 - Thompson v. State · 446 So. 2d 1031 - White v. State · Bouie 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen there are one or more valid aggravating factors which will support a death sentence, in the absence of any mitigating factor(s) which might override the aggravating factors, death is presumed to be the appropriate penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Singletary“the trial court's ruling would have been the same beyond a reasonable doubt even in the absence of the invalid aggravating factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Singletary
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.