Hitch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Hester v. State (1974), Works v. State (1977)
96 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 Hash v. State · Parker v. State · FULLER v. State · Watford v. State · Beavers 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ * * * it is immediately apparent that it would be impossible to commit the offense of robbery by putting in fear without having committed a theft from the person. Robbery by putting in fear requires a taking from the person of another an article of value by putting such person in fear. A theft from the person is committed when one obtains unauthorized control over property of the owner with intent to deprive the owner of the use or benefit thereof. If the offense is accomplished without putting in fear the person from whom control of the property is obtained, it is a theft from the person, but if the element of putting such person in fear is added, then the offense is robbery by putting in fear. The taking of something from the person of another by putting him in fear of necessity is an obtaining of unauthorized control of such property.’ (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is unrealistic to think that counsel may, by mere suggestion of error, thrust upon the court the burden of independently exhausting the possibilities that he may correct. Reason and authority are the lawyers’ work product and become the tools of the court, without which it cannot function.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Altman v. State · Loeb v. Loeb“"Instructions upon circumstantial evidence are not required to be given where the evidence of guilt is direct and positive or where some is direct and some is circumstantial." Hitch v. State (1972), 259 Ind. 1, 12 , 284 N.E.2d 783, 789 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Faught v. State · Reed 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.