Witmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 2012
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barclay v. Florida · Day v. State · Ajabu v. State · Gray v. State · State v. McKnight
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a trial court has used an erroneous aggravator, ... the court on appeal can nevertheless affirm the sentence if it can say with confidence that the same sentence is appropriate without it.”
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.