Whittington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2023
14 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 Rogers 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Infancy, insanity, imprisonment. If any person entided to bring any action specified in ... part [I of HRS chapter 657] ... is, at die time the cause of action accrued ...: (1) Within the age of eighteen years; [[Image here]] such person shall be at liberty to bring such actions within the respective times limited in this part, after the disability is removed or at any time while the disability exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“begun within two years after the claim accrues[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Okutsu v. State.
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.