Pelekai v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2019
10 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 Stack v. Boyle · State v. Nunes · State v. Kapoi · State Ex Rel. Marsland v. Town · State v. Oshiro
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough Henley's right to bail continued post-conviction, the circuit court had the authority to change the amount of bail post-conviction pursuant to its discretionary authority under HRS § 804-9. In exercising its discretion, it was required by HRS § 804-9, governing the amount of bail, to "consider the punishment to be inflicted on conviction, and the pecuniary circumstances of the party accused."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hau Phan“Pelekai v. White , 75 Haw. 357 , 366, 861 P.2d 1205 , 1210 (1993), and bail is to be fixed in a reasonable amount, considering the financial status of the defendant and the punishment to be imposed upon him on conviction, Sakamoto v. Won Bae Chang , 56 Haw. 447 , 451, 539 P.2d 1197 , 1200 (1975). See also HRS § 804-9 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hau Phan“[“]A writ of mandamus ... will not issue unless the petitioner demonstrates ... a clear and indisputable right to relief and ... a lack of other means [adequately to] redress the wrong or obtain the requested action. [ ]Such writs ... are ... [not] to serve as legal remedies in lieu of normal appellate procedure.””
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.