Whaley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
3
states following
November 1997
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. State · Ex Parte Crisp · Flores v. State · Deshong v. State · White 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, at the time when appellant committed the offense in the instant case, there was a valid statute in effect which made it a criminal offense to possess' heroin, regardless of the amount possessed. The unconstitutionality of the amendato-ry act does not render appellant’s conviction invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Juarez v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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