Pitts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2011
23 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 Mahaun v. State · 403 So. 2d 954 - Redondo v. State · 397 So. 2d 1229 - McCray v. State · State v. Pitts
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while the jury made no explicit finding of an attempted aggravated battery, it [was] a logical and plausible inference on their part based on the evidence before them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony must stand or fall in conjunction with the underlying felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jury made no such affirmative finding that defendant was guilty of a lesser included offense of the crime of aggravated battery.”
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.