State v. Pitts’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably State v. Jonathan M. (1990), Security Escrow Corp. v. State of Taxation & Revenue Department (1988)
50 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 Hampton v. United States · State v. McKinley · Dyke v. Georgia · State v. Mascarenas · State v. Ellenberger
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contributing to the delinquency of a minor consists of any person committing any act or omitting the performance of any duty, which act or omission causes or tends to cause or encourage the delinquency of any person under the age of eighteen years. Whoever commits contributing to the delinquency of a minor is guilty of a fourth degree felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barr
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.