State v. Pittman’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2009
20 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · McNabb v. United States · Mallory v. United States · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . This is not the sort of promise, either in phraseology or content, which would overcome a defendant’s free and unfettered will. . . .” (p. 596.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kanive
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.