White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Bell v. State (1986), Stoker v. State (1989)
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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Kirby v. Illinois · Pope v. Nebraska · King v. Texas · Martin 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court erred in not granting the appellant’s request to examine Grace further. Such errors are not reversible when, as here, the record shows that the venire member was questioned at length and that she unequivocally stated that she could not vote for the death penalty under any circumstances. Burns v. State, 556 S.W.2d 270, 276-278 (Tex.Cr.App.), ce rt. denied, 434 U.S. 935 , 98 S.Ct. 422 , 54 L.Ed.2d 294 (1977); Huffman v. State, 450 S.W.2d 858, 860 (Tex.Cr.App.1970), death penalty vacated, 408 U.S. 936 , 92 S.Ct. 2860 , 33 L.Ed.2d 753 (1972). See Ortega v. State, 462 S.W.2d 296, 303-304 (Tex.Cr.App.1970).” 629 S.W.2d at 706.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sawyers v. State“[Would you be able to] consider the penalty of confinement for life if it were proved that the defendant went into a store, attempted to rob it or robbed it, aimed a pistol at a woman’s head at short range and shot her, killing her instantly, and if the woman’s husband testified to that?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Raby v. State“remember that you have been sworn as jurors.”
1 later decision 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.