Fitch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 1984
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Edwards v. State · 32 Ala. App. 408 - Kelley v. State · Davis v. State · Denson v. Realty Mortgage Co. · McDowell 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"I charge you, members of the jury, that if you have a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt growing out of the evidence of any part of it, you must acquit her."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.