Whitfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2022
7 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 Wright v. State · Armijo v. State · Wright v. State · Roose v. State · Kavanaugh 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In making a determination as to whether probation is appropriate, the sentencing "judge has discretion to frame and consider, in a reasonable manner, the relevant inquiries with respect to the recognized purposes for imposing sentence. 'The societal need for retribution is a relevant consideration in the imposition of punishment. Another appropriate conmderatlon is whether the imposition of a penitentiary sentence would serve to deter others from committing s1m11ar 'erimes. It is approprlate to impose a sentence of imprisonment if probation would unduly depreciate the seriousness of the charged offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) A person is guilty of aggravated homicide by vehicle and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than twenty (20) years, if: (i) While operating or driving a vehicle in violation of W.S. 10-6-103, 31-5-233 or 41-13-206, he causes the death of another person and the violation is the proximate cause of the death; or (ii) He operates or drives a vehicle in a reckless manner, and his conduct is the proximate cause of the death of another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sampsell 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.