Whitnell v. Silverman’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 892 So. 2d 1261 - Carter v. Haygood (2005), 701 So. 2d 1291 - Reeder v. North (1997)
44 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · United States v. James Griggs Raines · 397 So. 2d 475 - Bazley v. Tortorich
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that persons similarly situated receive like treatment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]his ruling by the Court does not address the constitutionality of La. R.S. 9:5628 as it applies to individuals with diseases that have latency periods in excess of three years. The court has basically declined to decide on this issue because it is not presently before it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A case with a lengthy latency period might call for our reexamination of the Crier decision on the constitutionality of Section 5628.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.