Pittman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Strickland v. Washington · Rock v. Arkansas · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Streeter v. United States · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Elven when cause in fact is established, it must be determined that any variation between the result intended (with intent crimes) or hazarded (with reckless or negligent crimes) and the result actually achieved is not so extraordinary that it would be unfair to hold the defendant responsible for the actual result. Variations may occur (a) as to the person who is harmed, or (b) as to the manner in which the harm oceurs, or (c), in felony murder and misdemeanor-manslaughter cases, as to the type of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duncan v. State“It has never been a defense that the vie-tim would not have died from the wounds inflicted on him had it not been for his weakened physical condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reaves 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.