Fitts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2010
11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 155th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Clewis v. State · Malik v. State · Kelly v. State · Kinnamon 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a broad range of situations, including compensation for loss or suffering and the idea of a reward given or received because of some act'); see also State v. Chew, 150 N.J. 30 , 695 A.2d 1301, 1312 (1997) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pavatt v. State“[canine's] reliability was . . . evidenced by the laboratory test showing the presence of gasoline at the scene.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yell v. Commonwealth“not limited to murder-for-hire situations,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pavatt 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.