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← 372 SO2D 1328 - Fitch v. State

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.

  1. “"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.