Fritts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 1977
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sandefur v. State · Thompson v. State · Nation v. State · Keck v. State · Wafers 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statements and exclamations or acts and conduct of third persons are admissible in evidence when they are so closely connected with the crime as to constitute part of the res gestae.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neely 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.