Fitch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 1991 · most notably Dunham v. State (1939), 282 So. 2d 162 - State v. King (1973)
5 federal appellate · 47 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 Groover v. State · Washington v. State · Driggers v. State · Skipper v. State · Holbrook 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no evidence in this case which indicates that the owner of this money voluntarily parted with the. possession or the title thereto. The money was in the cash drawer in the owner’s store, where he had left it, and hence was still in his possession, and the felonious taking of it was a crime against his possession, which the custodian of the premises had no right to commit. If there was a trespass in the taking, it would be larceny rather than embezzlement, which latter crime generally involves a violation of relations of a fiduciary character. 9 R.C.L. 1264.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlos v. State“[t]he asportation may be completed by even the slightest removal of the thing stolen from its original position.”
1 later decision 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.