State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 215 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Maxwell (2014), State v. Trimble (2009)
1 federal appellate · 215 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · State v. Bradley · Wainwright v. Witt · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is rare for a court to presume that a jury is prejudiced by pretrial publicity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Instead, the decision whether to grant a change of venue rests largely within the discretion of the trial court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he right to be present is not absolute. Therefore, even if a defendant should have been present at a stage of the trial, errors of constitutional dimension are not ipso facto prejudicial. Prejudicial error exists only where a fair and just hearing [is] thwarted by [defendant's] absence.”
2 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.