Fitzpatrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. White (2001), State v. Brown (1994)
9 federal appellate · 31 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Lockett v. Ohio · Coker v. Georgia · State v. Larson · 40 Or. App. 711 - State v. DeLucia
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Theft. (1) A person commits the offense of theft when he purposely or knowingly obtains or exerts unauthorized control over property of the owner and: "(a) has the purpose of depriving the owner of the property;"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Madera
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.