Pittman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1979
15 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 Phillips v. State · Johnson v. State · Taylor v. State · Curry v. State · Fincher 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The promise which will render a confession involuntary, in the eyes of the law, must have relation to the legal consequences of the offense itself. It must involve some assurance of benefit to the defendant in respect of crime under in quiry,—as that he will not be prosecuted, or that the punishment will be mitigated, and the like.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holt 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.