White v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

cited by 57 later decisions

states following

April 2018

most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 56 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 794 So. 2d 181 - Williams v. State (2001), 898 So. 2d 641 - Price v. State (2005)

1 federal appellate · 56 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Solem v. Helm · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · McClain v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Furthermore, the trial court's discretion must be exercised within the scope of the Mississippi Rules of Evidence, and reversal will be appropriate only when an abuse of discretion resulting in prejudice to the accused occurs.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Jones v. State · 917 So. 2d 78 - McIntosh v. State
“(1) The gravity of the offense and the harshness of the penalty; (2) Comparison of the sentence with sentences imposed on other criminals in the same jurisdiction; and (3) Comparison of sentences imposed in other jurisdictions for commission of the same crime with the sentence imposed in this case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Towner v. State · Luckett v. State
“threshold comparison of the crime committed to the sentence imposed leads to an inference of `gross disproportionality,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Luckett v. State · 945 So. 2d 1004 - Edge 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.