Fletcher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Lambert v. State (1985), Sherman v. State (1996)
34 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 Emerson v. Boyles · Morris v. State · Robinson v. Arkansas Loan & Trust Co. · Freeman v. State · State v. Haller
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [W]hen a valid sentence has been put into execution, the trial court is without jurisdiction to modify, amend, or revise it in any way either during or after the term or session of the court at which the sentence was pronounced.” (Emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Manees · Charles v. State
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.