Whiteplume v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Chapman v. State (2001), Springfield v. State (1993)
40 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 Barker v. Wingo · Scadden v. State · Stephens v. State · Jones v. State · Griego 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I listened to her story and made a determination that she had been raped”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Newport v. State · Nielsen v. State“[Tlhis case is a close one that truly calls upon the most careful exercise of delicate judicial judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Metzger v. State · Fennell v. State“[W]e can only conclude that [the deputy] did infer that he believed or held an opinion with respect to the victim's version of the events surrounding the assault. He linked his "rape determination" only with "her story." We can construe his "rape determination" as nothing less than his inferential vouching for the truth of the victim's testimony .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Spence v. State · Mitchell 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.