Whitfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2018
17 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 Faretta v. California · 274 So. 2d 256 - Nelson v. State · 413 So. 2d 1175 - Francis v. State · 572 So. 2d 1336 - Nixon v. State · 507 So. 2d 1373 - Ferry 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]oes life in prison without parole really mean `no parole' under any circumstances [and that] [h]e will never be allowed back into society again”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ooperation with authorities (little or no weight); impoverished background (considerable weight); crack cocaine addiction (substantial weight); Whitfield's abandonment by his father and his mother's alcoholism (some weight); and that Whitfield was the victim of a near fatal shooting but forgave his assailant (little or no weight).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitfield v. State“(1) If he's sentenced to life, when would he be eligible for parole? Does the time served count towards the parole time? (2) If paroled from [Florida] would the defendant then be returned to [New York] to finish his sentence there?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.