White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 2006
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
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.
“Since one-third of a life sentence cannot be calculated, ... trial court may not set an indeterminate sentence where a life sentence is the maximum.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be less than, but shall not be more than, one-third ( 1/3) of the maximum sentence imposed,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.