3 Tenn. Crim. App. 372 - Ritter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Turner v. State (1975), South v. Lucero (1979)
38 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 Hardin v. State · Patmore v. State · Patterson v. State · State v. Morris · 99 N.J. Super. 22 - State v. Brown
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the requisite chain of possession has been sufficiently established to justify admission of the exhibit is a matter committed to the discretion of the trial judge and his determination will not be overturned in the absence of a clearly mistaken exercise thereof. [citation omitted].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shell v. Law · Bryant 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.