State v. Kittelson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1988 · most notably 519 So. 2d 622 - Staten v. State (1988), State v. Brown (1969)
27 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 McArthur Et Al. v. Clifford, Secretary of Defense, Et Al. · Maxwell v. Bishop · Stump v. Bennett · Johnson v. Bennett · Powell v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A common purpose among two or more persons to commit a crime, of course, need not be shown by positive evidence, but may be inferred from the circumstances surrounding the act and from defendant’s conduct subsequent thereto.” (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Patman““Any evidence, circumstantial or direct, must be sufficient to raise a fair inference of guilt. It must generate something more than suspicion, or speculation, or conjecture. * * * [Citing authorities].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Link
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.