Pittman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2012
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · McFee v. State · 660 So. 2d 1228 - Davis v. State · 735 So. 2d 1099 - Colenburg v. State · 618 So. 2d 116 - Stromas 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.
“[e]stablishing a proper chain of custody . . . has `never required the proponent to produce every person who handled the object, nor to account for every moment of every day.'”
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.