State v. Whittaker’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

cited by 38 later decisions

states following

June 2019

most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Profit (1999), State v. Martin (2009)

37 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 Griffin v. California · State v. Merrill · 595 So. 2d 1135 - State v. Mosby · State v. Bock · State v. Parker

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“(1) clear and convincing evidence that [the third person] participated in the [reverse-] Spreigl incident; (2) that the [reverse-] Spreigl evidence is relevant and material to the [defendant's] case; and (3) that the probative value of the [reverse-] Spreigl evidence outweighs its potential for unfair prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Profit
“Generally, a defendant is deemed to have waived the right to raise an issue on appeal concerning the prosecutor’s comments during closing argument if the defendant fails to object or seek cautionary instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Bashire
“a defendant may seek to introduce evidence of other crimes or misconduct of a third person to prove that the third person, rather than the defendant, committed the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Profit

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.