State v. Chittim’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably State v. Stidham (1957), State v. Atkinson (1956)
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 State v. Taylor · State v. Campbell · State v. Cutter · State v. Dowell
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prosecutrix positively fixed August 7, 1951, as the date of the crime. The state tried the case on the theory that the act of intercourse took place on that date. In fact, the state objected to a question asked one of appellant’s character witnesses because the question did not limit the time prior to August 7, 1951, which objection was sustained by the trial court. The issue presented by the state was that the act of intercourse took place on August 7, 1951, and that issue was accepted by the defense. Therefore, there was no foundation upon which to place an instruction as to any other time, as was done by the state. This instruction nullified appellant’s alibi defense which was supported by substantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sonen
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.