White v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 1319 · 1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2025
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Coleman v. Thompson · Harris v. Reed · Penry v. Lynaugh · Barefoot v. Estelle · Jurek v. Texas
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Graham v. Collins makes it clear that Penry does not require that a sentencer be able to give effect to a defendant's mitigating evidence in whatever manner or to whatever extent the defendant desires.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absent such provocation, [petitioner] would be nonviolent”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.